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Charles Simonyi Alive

Charles Simonyi
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Born1948
StatusAlive

Wrote Bravo — the first WYSIWYG editor — at PARC, then led Word and Excel at Microsoft and coined Hungarian notation.

Led the Bravo word processor at PARC, created Hungarian notation at Microsoft, and ran its applications division through Word and Excel.\n\nThe 'WYSIWYG is possible' proof; space tourist (twice) after Microsoft made him rich.