Archive for July, 2007
Those who have been around slashdot.org a while will certainly know of Robin Miller. I bumped into Robin this morning, away from OSCON, over at yonder Doubletree hotel, where I was meeting up with Eric Garulay, from Addison Wesley. We’re cooperatin’ on a few upcoming podcasts on Open Source (and one that I did back in [...]
Next Week, OSCON, the open source convention is happening in Portland–I reckon I mentioned that before. I will be one of many many folks from Microsoft attending. It’s real great that we’re not only sending people to an event like this, but so many folks are actually expecting that we’re going. I keep bumping into [...]
I’m off to Microsoft’s MGX conference (Microsoft Global Exchange) in Orlando this week. At MGX, the global sales force converges to learn and understand what’s new, and what’s going on. I’m going along to get a feel for what the evangelists are doing, and to communicate with some groups. I’m not too sure what to expect at [...]
I was in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada last week for a day talking to the students at the University of Waterloo about the Open Source Labs at Microsoft, and about working at Microsoft as an intern or full time employee. Now, I grew up in the era of computer languages coming out of the guys down [...]
Folks have been asking me, how can we believe that Microsoft is changing to see open source in a positive light. Microsoft has been hiring a lot of people over the last several years–Since YE2002 we’ve went from ~50,000 employees to ~78,000 employees. That means the over 1/3 of the company has been with the [...]
