Minesweeper

Journalist Kyle Orland is writing an entire book on the history of Minesweeper, which I suspect is a much more fascinating topic than it may at first appear ...

I felt very efficient having done this while I wasn’t even in the office." The email's sentiment "sounded very poetic," said Ryan. It was like he was writing his tombstone or something." Bill has a lot of important decisions to make, and this should not be taking up time!" She asked Ryan to do "a favor for the company… Gates was playing too much and this was "not a good thing. "Originally, I think I got a mail from Bill saying, 'I just solved [Beginner] Minesweeper in 10 seconds. This was a guy who didn't have time to waste. [Hallman] was a former Boeing executive, and he was not a humorful guy, so… Is that good?'" said product manager Bruce Ryan recalled. [an entire book on the history of Minesweeper](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gabedurham/boss-fight-books-season-6-here-to-play) (opens in new tab), which I suspect is a much more fascinating topic than it may at first appear. Plenty of Microsoft employees acquired a Minesweeper habit over this period and, amusingly enough, their reports to the developers were often erroneous.