Microsoft Hires Apple Vets

Tue., June 25, 1996

From Staff And Wire Reports

Microsoft Corp. hired two top programmers from Apple Computer Inc., including Macintosh software creator Steven Capps, the company said Monday.

Microsoft also hired Walter Smith, a designer of key portions of the software that runs Apple’s Newton handheld computer.

They will work in the Internet platform and tools division of Microsoft on products for both consumers and other software designers.

Capps worked for Xerox Corp. in the late 1970s and joined Apple to work on its Lisa computer and then the first version of the Macintosh, which has been Apple’s flagship machine since 1984. He left Apple in 1985 and returned in 1988 as chief developer for the Newton.

Smith also was an early member of the Newton team, designing the NewtonScript programming language, the way it stores data and programs that let other people create software for Newton.

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