Submitted this and found out I was beaten by less than a minute :) Charlie is an extremely famous figure at MSFT for everything from COM, Windows Home Server t

Submitted this and found out I was beaten by less than a minute :) Charlie is an extremely famous figure at MSFT for everything from COM, Windows Home Server to WP7. The first time I came across him was when I was in high school and I knew him as the guy behind COM (sorry, Charlie :) ) who wrote the funny foreword to Don Box's book. It is surreal to think that I actually met him and got to know him. This is a guy who knows how to build stuff. Big loss for MSFT.