Intentional: Microsoft acquires Charles Simonyi 's company Intentional Software

Microsoft on Tuesday acquired Intentional Software, the Bellevue-based startup founded by the Microsoft veteran who oversaw the creation of products including Word and Excel. Charles Simonyi in 2002 left Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to start Intentional Software with a plan to make programming less complicated. It's unclear exactly what the company has been working on since, but Microsoft Office executive Rajesh Jha in a blog post announcing the deal wrote the "team has applied their programming expertise...