Lou Perazzoli is one of the initial architects for

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made by

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Bloomberg Businessweek: Executive Profile: Lou Perazzoli
(accessed 12 February 2013) and later managed the core OS team for the first releases of Windows NT. He has a B.S in Mathematics and Computer Science (double major). He was one of the engineers which

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took with him to Microsoft from

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after the cancellation of the

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and

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projects.

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