Microsoft celebrates 30th year as developer's company
eWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft last month celebrated its 30th anniversary as the company built of, by and for developers. No other company has been able to amass an ecosystem of developers as large as or as committed as Microsoft has, analysts say.
Gates and company early on figured that the concept of high volume, low cost was the model to adopt. And they did. Another key theme was simplicity.
Anders Hejlsberg, a technical fellow and chief architect of C# at Microsoft, said when building a new language or platform, "I value simplicity over everything; I always look for simplicity."
Indeed, Hejlsberg said, "You can see it in the products I've built over the years-they strive to be simple. Simplicity is important in the quest for developer productivity."