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July 05, 2009

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: CHARLES SIMONYI - MS OFFICE'S FATHER AND SPACE TOURIST

Charles_simonyi If you typed a document using Microsoft Word today or sent an email using Outlook, you owe a little hat tip to the Hungarian-born Charles Simonyi who oversaw the creation of Microsoft's Office suite of applications. He earned a fortune at Microsoft and is now a billionaire. Simonyi is still in the business world and runs Intentional Software, a company he created in 2002. But he's also using his fortune for philanthropy and adventure. He has endowed professorships at Oxford and Stanford. And he has now visited space - twice! - as a tourist on the Russian Soyuz rocket.

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The only thing that's interesting to me is opening up a non-immigrant path in a legalization program. I think that this makes sense as an alternative for those who do not wish to be on a permanent residency path. If this is the only path available, I think it will have no chance.

Posted by: Greg Siskind | July 07, 2009 at 06:02 AM


In programming world, he is best known for the invention of Hungarian notation (though many of us don't like it :)

Posted by: Legal-immigrant | July 05, 2009 at 08:34 PM

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