[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.