Name: Meet the Intern Who Wrote Solitaire for Microsoft
Uploaded: 2022-03-02T21:01:20.000Z
Duration: 2 min 35 s
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Solitaire is one of the most popular computer games of all time, and we went to find the guy who created it.

Past simple

Are you the person that wrote solitaire for Microsoft?

I'm Wes Cherry, and I wrote Windows Solitaire.

Internships at Microsoft were really an all-encompassing thing, but I squoze it in there in the few little hours of my free time.

For those who need a refresher, Solitaire was played on the computer using a mouse.

Cards are pulled from the deck in an effort to stack cards in order by suit.

And if you won, you got an awesome display of cards cascading towards you.

I came up with the idea to write Solitaire for Windows out of boredom, really.

There wasn't many games right at the time so we had to make them.

In the mid to late '90's was just when people started really getting computers in their home.

Microsoft officially said that Solitaire was there to teach people how to use the mouse.

But, in reality, it was just really just something to have fun with.

Before they ever released Windows, of course Bill Gates got a shot at it.

His biggest complaint was that Solitaire was too hard to win.

And once people figured out the mouse it became a favorite past time.

The number of hours wasted on Solitaire is really countless.

I can say that right after Solitaire was released in 1990, there was a world recession.

So many people were playing it in the workplace that Wes came up with what he called "the boss key."

Press the special key and a spreadsheet was come up, so it made it look like you were doing real work.

Considering this game has been around for decades, you must have made a ton of money.