“Then suddenly we were boring, bloated, and not particularly interesting.” – Unsung

A blog about software craft and quality

In 2021 and 2022, product manager Steven Sinofsky wrote a… …first-person account of what I saw at the PC revolution from the perspective of joining Microsoft as a newly hired software design engineer fresh from graduate school working on developer tools, through my time as a program manager and ultimately leading Office, and then moving to Windows, and everything in between. Sinofsky called the series Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution . It covers 1989–2012 and somewhere inside over 100 chapters, there is a fascinating six parter about the “ ribbon ” redesign of O

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