John Socha
American software developer (born 1958) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the radio broadcaster and journalist, see John Stewart Socha.
John Socha-Leialoha (born 1958) is a software developer best known for creating Norton Commander, the first orthodox file manager. The original Norton Commander was written for DOS. Over the years, Socha's design for file management has been extended and cloned many times.
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John grew up in the woods of Wisconsin, earned a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin–Madison, and his PhD in Applied Physics from Cornell University. He now lives in Bellevue, Washington with his wife. His son, John Avi, is a graduate of the University of Washington.
Starting in September 2010, John began working at Microsoft officially.[1]