{"id":52411,"date":"2026-06-25T13:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=52411"},"modified":"2026-06-25T13:26:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:26:27","slug":"tony-krueger-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/25\/tony-krueger-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Krueger, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20260622-00\/?p=112451\">Raymond Chen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20260622-00\/?p=112451\">\n<p>Tony Krueger is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chip's_Challenge\"> remembered in Wikipedia<\/a> as the person who ported the game Chip&rsquo;s Challenge to Windows for the Windows Entertainment Pack. But that&rsquo;s probably not the code he wrote that touched the most people.<\/p>\n<p>Tony worked on Word 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, then on Word for OS\/2 and Word for Mac, then returned to Word 6.0 and several versions beyond that. He probably holds the record for &ldquo;most versions of Word shipped.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Tony made the spell checker much more unobtrusive so that it didn&rsquo;t interfere with your foreground work. And when it found a problem, instead of waiting for you to trigger a spell check, it immediately drew red squiggles under potentially-misspelled words (and later green squiggles under potential grammatical errors).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond Chen: Tony Krueger is remembered in Wikipedia as the person who ported the game Chip&rsquo;s Challenge to Windows for the Windows Entertainment Pack. But that&rsquo;s probably not the code he wrote that touched the most people. Tony worked on Word 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, then on Word for OS\/2 and Word for Mac, then returned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-06-25T17:26:30Z","apple_news_api_id":"f1916520-0b25-479f-8807-f12342ee939c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-06-25T17:26:30Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A8ZFlIAslR5-IB_EjQu6TnA","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":[77,583,30,445,208,2732,219],"class_list":["post-52411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-design","tag-grammar","tag-mac","tag-microsoftword","tag-rip","tag-spelling","tag-windows"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52411","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=52411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52412,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52411\/revisions\/52412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}