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Wednesday 8 April 2009, 8:28 AM
Hungarian Microsoft Billionaire Space Tourist Lands Safely
Second time is lucky too it seems. Hungarian ex-Microsoft Billionaire Charles Simonyi has landed safely after his second space-tourist mission.
I am living in Budapest for a while and so taking an interest in anything Hungarian in the news these days. Most of it is economic doom and gloom - the country recently lost its Prime Minister - but Simonyi's space flight, and the fact he is rolling in cash, is a welcome positive story.
Charles Simonyi is one of the lead creators of Microsoft Office. Wikipedia has all the skinny. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simonyi
I am living in Budapest for a while and so taking an interest in anything Hungarian in the news these days. Most of it is economic doom and gloom - the country recently lost its Prime Minister - but Simonyi's space flight, and the fact he is rolling in cash, is a welcome positive story.
Charles Simonyi is one of the lead creators of Microsoft Office. Wikipedia has all the skinny. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simonyi
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Charles was one of the creators of Microsoft Word (not Office - I think he was doing management by then). He had originally developed the core of the code which went into Word (for DOS) as part of the Bravo editor while still at Xerox PARC, before drifting to Microsoft.
Looks like space tourism and geekdom go hand-in-hand.
