Title
Orah history interview with Mike Maples
Publisher
Charles Babbage Institute
Abstract
After describing his substantial career at IBM where he was involved in display products and then with PCs, Mike Maples talks about joining Microsoft and managing its applications products. He discusses in detail his management philosophy at Microsoft and contrasts it with the IBM approach. He covers Microsoft’s successful recruiting practices and how product decisions were made. Maples also describes how development processes evolved and how Microsoft Office was designed and built. The selection of platform focus and decisions on the release of application program interface information are explained. Finally, he details why he left Microsoft and how he did so in a planned and structured fashion.
Previously Published Citation
Mike Maples, OH 387. Oral history interview by Nathan Ensmenger, 7 May 2004, Needham, Massachusetts. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107465
Suggested Citation
Maples, Mike.
(2004).
Orah history interview with Mike Maples.
Charles Babbage Institute.
Retrieved from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy,
https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107465.