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		andruby 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load... That could already be the case. The initial release is from 1990, so the codebase is at least 35 years old. I don't have a good guess for the average age of software developers at Microsoft, but claude.ai guesses the average "around 33-38 years" and the median "around 35-36 years old".

bcraven 11 months ago | [–]

"but claude.ai guesses"

To my ears this is the equivalent of "some guy down the pub said", but maybe I am a luddite.

n8m8 11 months ago | | [–]

You're not a luddite, they disclosed it because you're _supposed_ to take it with a grain of salt

claudex 11 months ago | [–]

Office was released in 1990, but Excel in 1985 and Word in 1983.

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