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      1 year ago

      Wow really? This may explain why valve likes Linux so much (at least in part, it’s an untapped market, 10 other reasons etc)

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          I think that must not be right. In this interview, he says that he went around showing Doom to everyone at MS, and he hints that he didn’t leave Microsoft until about 1996.

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            Also checked Wikipedia and it says “Newell spent 13 years at Microsoft as the producer of the first three releases of the Windows operating systems.” and he stayed at MS until found Valve which is indeed 1996. I guess that was some kind of a joke?

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      Is that why he left? In this interview he makes it sound like he just felt like making games. It seems like he wouldn’t have been at MS for 13 years if he hated it that much.