Mentor at Microsoft — and the man who said it could not be done
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One of the architects of Internet Explorer and of Microsoft's XML work; later at BEA, Google and Salesforce. An early mentor to Jonathan Hare at Microsoft.
At the 2006 Google summit he told E. O. Wilson that what he was describing was impossible. Hare's position is that he was right about everything except the conclusion — the obstacles he named were real, and were exactly what the architecture was built to remove.
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