{"id":31032,"date":"2020-12-15T17:02:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T22:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31032"},"modified":"2021-01-01T11:56:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T16:56:38","slug":"eric-engstrom-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/15\/eric-engstrom-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Engstrom, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2020\/12\/07\/friends-remember-microsoft-renegade-eric-engstrom-who-suggested-a-directx-console\/\">Dean Takahashi<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=25423712\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2020\/12\/07\/friends-remember-microsoft-renegade-eric-engstrom-who-suggested-a-directx-console\/\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/engstrom_tv\">Eric Engstrom<\/a> passed away this week, leaving friends in mourning for one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2011\/11\/14\/making-of-the-xbox-1\/view-all\/\">renegades of the Microsoft empire<\/a> and a brilliant tech innovator.<\/p><p>Engstrom was known as part of the &ldquo;Beastie Boys,&rdquo; a trio of evangelists who paved the way for Microsoft&rsquo;s expansion in games in the late 1990s and early 2000s with DirectX. The expansion eventually enabled Microsoft to launch the Xbox (X signified DirectX) video game console &mdash; an enterprise that generated billions of dollars for Microsoft and made it a major player in the game industry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"eric-engstrom-rip-update-2021-01-01\">Update (2021-01-01): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/microsoft-xbox-edge-game-changers\/\">Edge<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=25576859\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/microsoft-xbox-edge-game-changers\/\"><p>Edge magazine investigates the dramatic origins of the original Xbox and how an internal team &lsquo;hoodwinked&rsquo; Bill Gates into launching Microsoft&rsquo;s first console.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Takahashi (via Hacker News): Eric Engstrom passed away this week, leaving friends in mourning for one of the renegades of the Microsoft empire and a brilliant tech innovator.Engstrom was known as part of the &ldquo;Beastie Boys,&rdquo; a trio of evangelists who paved the way for Microsoft&rsquo;s expansion in games in the late 1990s and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-12-15T22:02:38Z","apple_news_api_id":"bf927808-2c37-4eff-8b91-a0d5ed2f46fc","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-01-01T16:56:42Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Av5J4CCw3Tv-LkaDV7S9G_A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[619,37,208,158,219],"class_list":["post-31032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-graphics","tag-microsoft","tag-rip","tag-strategytax","tag-windows"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31186,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31032\/revisions\/31186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}