We have not seen too many former colleagues publicly speak out about Jon DeVaan or George Grant outside of Steven Sinofsky. _But as it turns out Hal Berenson has worked with both DeVaan and George Grant. _Of course here at MSNews we are fans of Hal’s who writes a great blog entitled Hal2020. For those not familiar with_Mr. Berenson, he is a former Microsoft distinguished engineer and worked at the company from 1994 – 2002 and spent decades at the Digital Equipment Corporation before that. _Due to his experiences Hal often provides a unique perspective and earlier today he shared his thoughts on DeVaan and Grant. Hal on Job DeVaan: I interacted with Jon a little in his time in Online Services and then we worked together extensively (on Quests) when he was running the Core OS group during Windows 7._ Steven Sinofsky got the public credit for how good Windows 7 is, but most of the improvement that you see (over Vista) is because of Jon._ The quality improvements,...

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