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Microsoft was founded in 1975. 1981 was the first DOS release. 1985 was the first release of Windows. 40 years working on windows is a long time, I would be surprised if anyone for the original team is left at this point. Even someone joining out of college in 2000 is now 25 years in, is 57, and could feasibly be retiring....

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I don’t think that math is quite right. Graduating from college in 2000 would be 47, not 57 unless they were 32 when they graduated college.

That's in Microsoft years. Working there makes you get older faster.

Yeah I made an arithmetic error, meant 1990.

True. I meant to say that it feels like the people who know what's going on have long departed and it's junior web developers left to pick up the pieces.

You mean 1990. Someone graduating college in 1990 would have been about 21. That was 35 years ago, so they would be about 56 in 2025.

Math is hard.

Cmon man, it's a comment not a research paper. Off by one isn't worth a follow up snark

Their main point was it is off by 10; then they introduced an additional confusing question of “is it off by 10, 11, or 12?”

Off by 10+1. Someone who graduated college in 2000 = 25 + 22 (4 years of college from 18) = 47, not 57, and not anywhere close to the retirement age. It might be pedantry, but the original comment should have said 1990, not 2000.

Weird flex of pedantry even for HN.

Says who? I did a gap year service project and graduated at age 23. My business partner did a 3-2 program and graduated at 23.

Plus, anyone working as an engineer then has a 8 figure net worth and the overwhelming majority moved on long ago.

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