Mark Lucovsky is an American

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who was previously employed by

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as an Operating System Engineering Director. He also served as the General Manager of Operating Systems at

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. Prior to this, he worked at

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and VMware. He is noted for being a part of the team that designed and built the

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, which, starting with

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, became the basis of all current Windows releases. Lucovsky earned his

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in 1983 from

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. He worked at

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, where he came to the attention of

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and Lou Perazzoli. When Cutler and Perazzoli moved to Microsoft to work on their next generation operating system after the cancellation of the

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and

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projects at Digital, they asked him to join them. Among his contributions to Windows NT was an eighty-page manual that he wrote with Steve R. Wood defining the Windows

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s for software developers working on the Windows NT platform. 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. Lucovsky has stated that

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, 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

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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.

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