Editing Mark Lucovsky

{{short description|American software developer}}
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'''Mark Lucovsky''' is an American [[software developer]] who was previously employed by [[Google]] as an Operating System Engineering Director. He also served as the General Manager of Operating Systems at [[Facebook]]. Prior to this, he worked at [[Microsoft]] and [[VMware]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-Engineering-Director-Leaves-for-VMware-279800/ | title=Google Engineering Director Leaves for VMware}}{{dead-link|date=July 2023|attempted-fix=true}}</ref> He is noted for being a part of the team that designed and built the [[Windows NT]] [[operating system]], which, starting with [[Windows XP]], became the basis of all current Windows releases.

Lucovsky earned his [[bachelor's degree]] in [[computer science]] in 1983 from [[California Polytechnic State University|California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo]].<ref name="showStopper">{{cite book | title=Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft | first=G. Pascal | last=Zachary | year=1994 | publisher=Warner Books | isbn=0-02-935671-7 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/showstopperbreak00zach }}</ref> He worked at [[Digital Equipment Corporation]], where he came to the attention of [[Dave Cutler]] and [[Lou Perazzoli]].<ref name="showStopper" />  When Cutler and Perazzoli moved to Microsoft to work on their next generation operating system after the cancellation of the [[DEC PRISM|PRISM]] and [[DEC MICA|MICA]] projects at Digital, they asked him to join them.<ref name="showStopper" />

Among his contributions to Windows NT was an eighty-page manual that he wrote with Steve R. Wood defining the Windows [[application programming interface]]s for software developers working on the Windows NT platform.<ref name="showStopper" /> He also managed check-ins to the Windows NT source code, tracking each check-in and discussing it with the developer before allowing it to be committed.<ref name="showStopper" />

Lucovsky has stated that [[Steve Ballmer]], upon being informed by Lucovsky that he was about to leave Microsoft for Google, became enraged, picked up a chair and threw it across his office, hitting a table. Lucovsky also described Ballmer as saying: "Fucking [[Eric Schmidt]] is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google," then resumed trying to persuade Lucovsky to stay at Microsoft.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://battellemedia.com/archives/2005/09/ballmer_throws_a_chair_at_fing_google.php | title=Ballmer Throws A Chair At "F*ing Google" | author=John Battelle | date=September 2, 2005 | work=John Battelle's Searchblog | accessdate=2008-01-06}}</ref>

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