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Office codebase is soon going to probably be older than most people that work on it.
by vasco 2y ago
Office codebase is soon going to probably be older than most people that work on it.
- andruby 2y agoThat could already be the case. The initial release is from 1990, so the codebase is at least 35 years old. I don't have a good guess for the average age of software developers at Microsoft, but claude.ai guesses the average "around 33-38 years" and the median "around 35-36 years old".
- claudex 2y agoOffice was released in 1990, but Excel in 1985 and Word in 1983.
- bcraven 2y ago"but claude.ai guesses" To my ears this is the equivalent of "some guy down the pub said", but maybe I am a luddite.
- n8m8 2y agoYou're not a luddite, they disclosed it because you're _supposed_ to take it with a grain of salt
- gigel82 2y agoI'm told from MS friends that there are still files with the intact 1987 changelog in Word; as well as workarounds for dot matrix printers that were released 40+ years ago. Also, the Office codebase is significantly larger than Windows (and has been for a while), that was surprising to me.