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Dev War Stories, with Steven Sinofsky (a16z, ex-Microsoft) - S04E01

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The Windows 8 Software Rewrite

Microsoft's Windows 8 software rewrite was a feat of software evolution, says Steve Ballmer. The company wanted to bring the product into a new era of computing from top to bottom. It also seems like there are many architecture decisions that were revisited. "I go back and forth in this because I think programming really hasn't changed," he says.

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