Friday, October 27, 2006

The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: From Hungary to the galaxy, Simonyi's goals always high

Some people have weird hobbies...  I bet his "'special friend', domestic goddess Martha Stewart", is not thrilled...

Charles Simonyi considers himself blessed to be able to fly to space.

Four decades after he fled Soviet-occupied Hungary to help create the U.S. personal-computer industry and key Microsoft products such as Word and Excel, Simonyi is to join two Russian cosmonauts flying a Soyuz TMA10 to the international space station on March 9.

Source: The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: From Hungary to the galaxy, Simonyi's goals always high

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