Microsoft veteran launches tool start-up
C|Net | at | by Mike
Former Microsoft researcher Charles Simonyi has started a new company with the goal of creating software development tools. During his 20-year tenure at Microsoft, Simonyi served as director of application development, chief architect and distinguished engineer, and helped to develop the company's Multiplan, Word and Excel applications. He also worked as a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
The new company, Intentional Software, was created with Simonyi's business partner, Gregor Kiczales, a professor at the University of British Columbia. The tools it is creating are meant to help programmers more closely match their designs with the resulting code and to allow maximum reuse of software components.