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Neil Konzen was one of Microsoft's earliest employees and was in charge of their Macintosh porting projects. Originally an Apple II programmer, he was hired by Microsoft and was responsible for porting many Microsoft products to Macintosh, such as Microsoft Word. It was also thanks to Konzen Microsoft was able to make Microsoft Windows based on information Konzen learned while working at Apple. Steve Jobs later filed a lawsuit in 1988 over this, but due to a technicality Konzen's contributions to Windows based on information he had gained from Apple was declared legal.

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  • Neil Konzen was one of Microsoft's earliest employees and was in charge of their Macintosh porting projects. Originally an Apple II programmer, he was hired by Microsoft and was responsible for porting many Microsoft products to Macintosh, such as Microsoft Word. It was also thanks to Konzen Microsoft was able to make Microsoft Windows based on information Konzen learned while working at Apple. Steve Jobs later filed a lawsuit in 1988 over this, but due to a technicality Konzen's contributions to Windows based on information he had gained from Apple was declared legal.
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  • Neil Konzen was one of Microsoft's earliest employees and was in charge of their Macintosh porting projects. Originally an Apple II programmer, he was hired by Microsoft and was responsible for porting many Microsoft products to Macintosh, such as Microsoft Word. It was also thanks to Konzen Microsoft was able to make Microsoft Windows based on information Konzen learned while working at Apple. Steve Jobs later filed a lawsuit in 1988 over this, but due to a technicality Konzen's contributions to Windows based on information he had gained from Apple was declared legal. On a more amusing note, Neil Konzen and Bill Gates were discovered to be the authors of a subpar computer game called Donkey, which folklore.org writer Andy Hertzfield described as:
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