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To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (6963)	8/7/2022 5:03:43 PM
From: LoneClone	1 Recommendation Recommended By Zen Dollar Round Read Replies (2) of 7275

My first interaction with Microsoft reaches back to 1984. I was hired by a government department to do research and analysis, and among the tools I was given was access to one of the first microcomputers bought by our provincial government as well as this new-fangled software called Excel. When I couldn't figure out some feature I would call up Microsoft and ask them about it, usually getting a response along the lines of "Well, maybe this will work. Let us know when you tried it." Once I got to know the people I was calling they confessed that I was probably the first person outside the developers to try it, and they really weren't certain what would happen. I later found out that in those days Microsoft had one tester for every 20 developers. Today software companies normally employ more testers than developers. It took only two days for one of my fellow employees to accidentally wiped the hard drive, which unlike today, was pretty darn easy to do by mistake. I also remember going in and editing the memory bit by bit to regain access to lost data. LC

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