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I Joined Microsoft 40 Years Ago

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  • Posted on June 24, 2025June 25, 2025

Lisa and I bought the first Macintosh [128K RAM, 400K floppy disk] at release in…

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Survival of the Fittest Is Best Cyberdefense [unpublished WSJ letter], 2025-03-22

  • by benslivka
  • Posted on April 15, 2025

Note: I’ve had three other letters to the editor published by the Wall Street Journal.…

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Internet Explorer Team Started 30 Years Ago

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  • Posted on October 4, 2024October 2, 2024

I was working for John Ludwig and finishing up my “Diamond” project (See *.CAB files)…

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Amazon.com Key Challenges, slivka@, 1999-10-05

  • by benslivka
  • Posted on September 22, 2023

I started work at amazon.com on September 7, 1999, reporting to Chief Information Officer Rick…

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ChatGPT Generates Error-Laden Biography

  • by benslivka
  • Posted on January 14, 2023December 10, 2023

12/10/2023 UPDATE: I tried the new Grok service by X (nee Twitter). Only one error…

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Should Microsoft Spin Out Windows & Office?

  • by benslivka
  • Posted on January 11, 2022January 11, 2022

On Monday December 27th, I received a message on my Twitter account from Jordan Novet,…

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Internet Explorer: A Brief History [6/2022 update]

  • by benslivka
  • Posted on May 27, 2021June 15, 2022

6/15/2022: Internet Explorer Has Officially Retired In this blog post today, Microsoft confirmed that IE…

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My Start-up Portfolio

  • by benslivka
  • Posted on March 3, 2021January 21, 2024

[Last Updated on Thursday 1/26/2023]My wife Lisa and I are active “angel” investors and advisers.…

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Before Slack and Teams: The Windows Service (1998)

  • by benslivka
  • Posted on November 20, 2020

In 1998, I was working on the “RedShark” project to create a new user interface, along with Joe Belfiore, Steve Capps, and a team of ~15 other Microsoft employees. We imagined this could become a “software as a service” called “Neptune” that would supersede Windows.

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Q+A with Ben about Web Browser History and More

  • by benslivka
  • Posted on September 3, 2020May 26, 2021

My friend Todd Warren is co-teaching a class on Web Development at Ashesi University in…

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