Microsoft recently lost one of its best software engineers, known as Eric Engstrom, he dies on December 1, 2020. At only 55 years of age this man loses his life; he considered himself one of the best employees of the company, since it was thanks to him and 2 other subjects that DirectX was created. We tell you a summary of his life.
Discouraging news, passing of Eric Engstrom. Do you know who he is?
Eric was born on January 25, in the year 1965, Seattle, Washington. He is known for being one of the 3 participants who won the credit for developing DirectX; known for being one of the most widely used programs by Windows so that the operating system can be considered a stable gaming platform.
In his early life he studied at Washington State University, however he never finished his career by dedicating himself to work. It should be noted that years after retiring from the university, he decides to continue with his pation (programming), thanks to this he got multiple job offers; one of them in Data I / O and Microsoft.
He works in Data I / O for the first time because he was offered a higher salary. However, years later he returned and joined Microsoft as general manager; exactly in 1991. After a few years of joining Microsoft Eric Engstrom and 2 more users decide to support the company seeking the development of software that could be implemented to improve the Windows interface in terms of video games.
With this initiative, DirectX was born, currently one of the most used add-ons in Windows. In addition, after this collaboration, he also offers his software engineer services to apply improvements to the Xbox console.
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