The man who invented the red squiggle under misspelled words has died (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Microsoft's Raymond Chen wrote a belated obituary for Tony Krueger, who made spell-check run quietly in the background and drew the red squiggle that flags a typo as you type, with green later added for grammar.
A reader spotted the catch: Chen cites Wikipedia as proof of who did the work, and Wikipedia's current source for that claim is a link straight back to Chen's article.
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