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August 14, 2007

Identify

devadutta @ 11:12 am, GMT +0000 ( 1187089963 ) Play

This man, has many firsts to his name.
His initials can be found as the magic number for one of the first file formats Microsoft churned out.
Identify him

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Cracked by:
Srikanth, prabhu_dc and Anuj. Bravo!!
( Bikiran gets it too, just a bit late )

Answer:

He is Mark Zibkowski. One of the first computer hackers. His initials(MZ) can be found as the magic number for the DOS Executable file format. He is also the first to complete 25 years of service at MS apart from Gates and Ballmer.

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