Father of Word and Excel shoots for three-peat with Intentional Software

by ZDNet's David Berlind
“ Father of Word and Excel shoots for three-peat with Intentional Software

-- Like the blockbuster movie producer or director who works behind the scenes but whose celebrity is often confined to Hollywood insiders, Dr. Charles Simonyi is a giant among giants here at PC Forum in Scottsdale, Ariz. If you strike up a conversation with the easily approachable, mild-mannered, Hungarian-born software legend and passers-by such as Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon.com) or Tim O'Reilly detect that Simonyi is even slightly engaged, they'll stop and tune-in.After leaving Xerox PARC, Simonyi joined Microsoft in 1981 and fathered two of the three biggest franchises in Microsoft's history -- Word and Excel. After a storied 21-year tenure with the Redmond, Wash.-based company, Simonyi is looking for a three-peat. But this time, it's not with Microsoft....
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