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The Zamzar Blog
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The Zamzar Blog is the company blog at blog.zamzar.com, writing about business and history. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (2016)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (2016)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-10
- Life before the web – Running a Startup in the 1980's (2016)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-07-13
What Hacker News says?
"Files are dead" is an oft-quoted meme, but they aren't going away anytime soon. I wrote a piece offering a counterpoint to this view five years ago (in response to a similar article by Fred Wilson) and I think most of the points still hold true today: https://blog.zamzar.com/2015/01/02/why-fred-wilson-is-wrong-...
Comment linking /2015/01/02/why-fred-wilson-is-wrong-files-arent-dead/
on “Everything is amazing, but nothing is ours”Submitted Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (2016) as a story · 276 points
HN discussion"Files are dead" is an oft-quoted meme, but they aren't going away anytime soon. I wrote a piece offering a counterpoint to this view five years ago (in response to a similar article by Fred Wilson) and I think most of the points still hold true today: https://blog.zamzar.com/2015/01/02/why-fred-wilson-is-wrong-...
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on “Computer Files Are Going Extinct”Submitted The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird Internet history as a story · 243 points
HN discussionWe interviewed the inventor of PowerPoint for our blog, and he gave a fascinating inside story of how he almost sold to Apple before eventually sealing a deal with Microsoft: https://blog.zamzar.com/2016/06/10/deal-of-the-century-how-m... We also recently interviewed the creator of Microsoft Word who talked about working with Bill Gates in the 1980s: https://blog.zamzar.com/2020/03/20/an-interview-with-richard... Fo…
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on “Ask HN: What are some great posts or articles about history of computing?”Submitted Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother as a story · 225 points
HN discussionWe observed this problem first hand when the inventor of Powerpoint emailed us to ask for help in opening old presentations which he could no longer view ! When the guy who wrote the software which produced the file can't view it 20 years later you know you've got a problem. You can read more about that here: http://blog.zamzar.com/2012/04/17/open-old-powerpoint-presen...
Comment linking /2012/04/17/open-old-powerpoint-presentations-in-office-2007-and-office2010/
on “Google's Vint Cerf Warns of 'digital Dark Age'”Submitted How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M as a story · 219 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life before the web – Running a Startup in the 1980's (2016) as a story · 70 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Fred Wilson is wrong – files aren’t dead as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life before the web – Running a Startup in the 1980's as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted The rise and fall of Flash – a history as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Interview with Richard Brodie – Creator of Microsoft Word as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Celebrating 30 Years of Microsoft Word as a story · 2 points
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