Paul Allen – Microsoft cofounder

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I met Pal Allen in a presentation sometime back in the DC Conference Center when he was with Microsoft in a crowd of 3-4 thousand presenting a “product” promotion when he said the “product” was “deployed” in Veteran Administration (VA).  Rather than embarrassing him asking a question publicly, I quietly walked to him and privately expressed my opinion that the product was in Beta testing, I thought.  He replied, ” Yes it was in Beta testing but soon “expected” it to pass the test.  But in my opinion that was a “presumption” and misrepresentation of the real fact.  But that is Microsoft.

His obituary Read on.

 

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