[vasco]

Office codebase is soon going to probably be older than most people that work on it.

[andruby]

That could already be the case. The initial release is from 1990, so the codebase is at least 35 years old.

I don't have a good guess for the average age of software developers at Microsoft, but claude.ai guesses the average "around 33-38 years" and the median "around 35-36 years old".

[bcraven]

"but claude.ai guesses"

To my ears this is the equivalent of "some guy down the pub said", but maybe I am a luddite.

[n8m8]

You're not a luddite, they disclosed it because you're _supposed_ to take it with a grain of salt

[claudex]

Office was released in 1990, but Excel in 1985 and Word in 1983.

[gigel82]

I'm told from MS friends that there are still files with the intact 1987 changelog in Word; as well as workarounds for dot matrix printers that were released 40+ years ago.

Also, the Office codebase is significantly larger than Windows (and has been for a while), that was surprising to me.