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He gave Solitaire to Windows ("no you can't have your time back")

12:12 PM Mon, Apr 21, 2008 |
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solitaire.jpgB3TA : Interviews: Wes Cherry. Wes Cherry wrote the Solitaire program that comes with Windows while an intern at Microsoft in 1989.

...Sadly, a compensation or royalty package was never discussed, so he's never benefited financially.

We sent Wes a load of questions, and the best part of a year later he got back to us to reveal what it's like to be responsible for a global recession, as well as giving away the secret of Bill Gates' strategy for winning at Minesweeper.

Definitely one of the quirkier interviews you'll read.

Since solitaire has wasted so much of our time, want to waste some more: While a game is in progress, press ALT-Shift-2 to shift into the animation that ends the game, pictured above... (To start the game, Start-->Run-->sol.exe)

His latest work? Wes did it again. It's freeware.I checked out his mp3 jukebox:

Juke is a mp3 library manager and player, especially suited for large MP3 collections. It is released as freeware and is Copyrighted by Technosis.
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