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Mark Lucovsky is a software developer who worked for Microsoft and who is now employed by Google. In particular he is known for being a part of the team that designed and built the Windows NT operating system.

He received his bachelor's degree in computer science in 1983 from the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. He then worked at Digital, where he came to the attention of Dave Cutler and Lou Perazzoli. When Cutler and Perazzoli moved to Microsoft to work on their next generation operating system, they asked him to join them.

Amongst his contributions to Windows NT, was an eighty-page manual he wrote with Steve R Wood defining the Windows APIs for software developers working on the Windows NT platform. He also managed check-ins to the Windows NT source code, tracking each check-in and discussing it with the developer before allowing it to be committed. Lucovsky was instrumental in moving the Windows team from the homegrown SLM revision control system to the Perforce-derived SourceDepot system.

Mark Lucovsky has claimed that on hearing that he (Lucovsky) was about to leave Microsoft for Google "Steve Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: 'Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google,'" then resumed trying to persuade Lucovsky to stay at Microsoft. Ballmer has described this as a "gross exaggeration of what actually took place." [1], [2]

Lucovsky worked on the doomed Microsoft's .Net My Services product (codenamed Hailstorm) prior to moving to Google.

Reference

  • Zachary, G. Pascal. (1994). ShowStopper!. The Free Press. ISBN 0029356717.

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