2007-09-04 13:55 Dumbing Down OpenXML Quandry
Unless you ve been under a rock you are aware of Microsoft s attempts to certify their Open XML implementation as an ISO standard. On the face of it, its hard to understand why this issue could raise so many conversations and threads over the web so allow me to dumb down the case for you and explain what all the acronyms stand for. Most people know what BBB in USA is and what it claims to be. BBB or Better Business Bureau claims to be an organization that rewards and punishes businesses based on …
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2007-09-04 01:15 Microsoft Company Meeting Ahoy!
Just some random events happening before the Company Meeting this Thursday ( BEWARE Seattle drivers! Stay away from Safeco field! ). Are you, like, LisaB's BFF Well, no. I think LisaB is losing momentum and getting caught up in a cult-of-personality not of her making ( what will we have this year Orange berets ). But she certainly is poised to flip the momentum she has built up and have big impact - as far as she can as the HR head - to the everyday Microsoftie. Some of the items not shared in t …
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2007-08-31 07:55 The Next Great Microsoft Lock-in
I've written a lot here and elsewhere about Microsoft's faux-open file format OOXML. I've also noted that there is an unhealthily close relationship between the BBC and Microsoft over the former's iPlayer and its chosen file formats. Now it seems that this kind of chummy lock-in is happening elsewhere, at the UK's National Archives and beyond. The National Archive story is not new, but dates back to July of this year, when I first noted it. Here's what a Microsoftie said :The announcement we jus …
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2007-08-27 20:11 Mini-Microsoft
Way ahead of you, dude: Already off and into Redfin's orbit is former Microsoftie Jeff Yee: Will work for food: why I left Microsoft for a startup. Snippet:
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2007-08-27 01:44 Reviewzapalooza!
Let's talk about you : it's Reviewzapalooza time! How do you like the new numbers sheet - does it help with the context of what your awards are Once again, the charmingly good looking folks who participate in the comments here have started sharing their numbers to help get an idea of how they stand and how it compares across groups in the company. You can see some comments in the Gone Fishin' post, and the template that has evolved into is basically: Position: Job Title Level: Commitment: Exceed …
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2007-08-27 00:38 The Insider: GodDango -- not a cuss word, it's a Web site
A former Microsoftie launches a Web site for the "spiritually curious" ... KeyBank offers check cashing to non-account-holders ... Piecora's Pizza owner overshadows SBA official ...
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2007-08-24 04:04 Bill Gates' patent application, and other items of note, like Jeff Yee's blog! (John Cook's blog)
Former Microsoftie Jeff Yee explains why he left the company for Redfin, the online real-estate start-up. In the process, he offers perspectives on life inside Microsoft. For example: "Legitimate questions often got defensive responses. To paraphrase one
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2007-08-13 11:58 Ex Microsoft, Google, Nextel team fund voice startup
They're not saying how much, but a group of blue-chip tech veterans is funding Travelling Wave, a Seattle startup developing voice recognition technology. The angels include former Googler Colin Wong, former Microsoftie and VC Bill Miller, Madrona Venture principal Geoff Entress and Jim Judson, a lawyer who worked with McCaw Cellular and Nextel International. The company has developed what it calls a "predictive speech-to-text" system for mobile devices. It describes the technology like this: Wh …
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2007-08-10 15:02 Kisses and Interrogations
First post titles are hard. For a split second I thought "There's a New Scoble In Town" had a good ring to it, but I figured Josh would kill me for linkbaiting in my first post. I could have gone with an old standby geek classic like "Hello, World!", but at the end of the day I settled on "Kisses and Interrogations". Why Because I get to tell a story that lets me drop the fact that I was in a band. When I was living in Detroit a few years back, we opened for a great little indie band called Juda …
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2007-08-08 17:25 Former MS employee writes back to his team about life at Google, gets nasty comments
A former Microsoft employee writes back to his old friends at Microsoft about his new job at Google: Life at Google - The Microsoftie Perspective. Some of the highlights: Lots of young people = not a lot of family responsibilities = they stay at work a lot Microsoft offers offices with doors, while Google prefers the ballpen approach. The writer favors Microsoft on this Google has less structure for career advancement and hierarchy, mirroring what our friends tell us about their Google experienc …
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2007-08-08 06:20 Life as a Microsoft Recruiter
Stumbled across this video of fellow Microsoftie - Simon Mullin and felt compelled to post! (Hello Simon!) So, how does one become a Microsoft Recruiter Check out the video below to find out. http://www.youtube.com/watchv=mDNmxiX8SQA Related Posts Life with Bill... Wowzers! I was cited in Fast Company... Look! Microsoft's very first homepage. Bookmark to:
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2007-08-06 23:05 Tagging some Canucks
Jeff Pulver started up another game of "blog tag" yesterday in advance of Blog Day 2007, happening August 31. It's always a good opportunity to mix it up a little, and encourage people to check out some blogs you might not otherwise read. The rules are simple: 1. List five Blogs that you find interesting and if you can tell, include the city/country where they are from. 2. Identify five Bloggers to tag to join in this game with you. I recommend emailing the bloggers you tag to give them a head …
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2007-07-23 12:30 news:taking-one-continent-at-a-time - created
LOLCODE is getting some love in Australia. Aussie Microsoftie and long-time supporter Nick Hodge is running a session on LOLCODE at the upcoming Tech.Ed 2007 conference near Brisbane, 6-10 August 2007. Oh, what I would give to see the stunned faces in that room....
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2007-07-23 12:30 taking over the world, one continent at a time
taking over the world, one continent at a time LOLCODE is getting some love in Australia. Aussie Microsoftie and long-time supporter Nick Hodge is running a session on LOLCODE at the upcoming Tech.Ed 2007 conference near Brisbane, 6-10 August 2007. Oh, what I would give to see the stunned faces in that room. Cheers, Nick! (And thanks once again, Arachnid, for lolcode.net which no doubt makes this possible!)
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2007-07-12 22:54 An Uncensored Peak into Google
On June 24th an anonymous blogger posted an interview he did with an ex Google employee called " Life at Google - The Microsoftie Perspective ". Due to the required anonymity of the interview (Google is probably not happy about it) it cannot be verified for its authenticity but the post has caused a ton of noise over the past month and I found it a very intriguing read. To many this is a very old story but if you missed it I think you will really enjoy it. I sensed it was credible because it sma …
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2007-07-10 11:32 Wealth: Paul Allen lives in a yellow submarine
Okay, okay. We don't know if Microsoft cofounder and tech-investing dilettante Paul Allen has actually moved into it. But the Dubai Luxury blog reports that he's shelled out $12 million on a yellow submarine. A 40-foot-long yellow submarine. You're a Beatles fan, Paul; we get it. But Paulie, baby, want to know why your net worth is only a third that of fellow Microsoftie Bill Gates Dumbass purchases like this.
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2007-07-03 19:42 TinySIS
I randomly discovered today that former Microsoftie (apparently) Eric Artzt used Ruby on Rails last year to write a very pretty little student information system (well, part of one) named TinySIS for an alternative school in Seattle called The Nova Project as part of his work on a masters in ed tech. The screen shots in this pdf look great. The only problem now is that despite describing how the project "Made me love the O.S.G (open-source goodness)," Artzt doesn't seem to have any plans to rele …
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2007-07-03 01:28 Ideas from Google to Help Microsoft
About two weeks back, I wrote a post about the search engine battles between Yahoo! and Google. I acknowledged that Google was and is one of the most impressive companies in business history. But I titled the post: Arrogance: Google's Achilles' Heel . I expressed concern (as have others) that excessive pride and the feeling that somehow people in the firm were smarter than other human beings could be the firm's undoing; and I contrasted the Google spirit with the Jerry Yang's renowned modesty …
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2007-07-02 19:30 Google Culture
So a perspective of Google has been going around for a little while now. The story of when an interview gets widely distributed though is more interesting. It's not like Microsoft has anything to gain from distributing this information. Via, " RE: Life at Google - The Microsoftie Perspective ".
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2007-06-29 18:25 links for 2007-06-29
Net Neutrality Takes A Blow | Metaversed Progress towards preserving net neutrality took a step backward Wednesday (tags: netneutrality fcc ) Mini-Microsoft: Guy Kawasaki for Microsoft's Next CEO Let's slim down Microsoft into a lean, mean, efficient customer pleasing profit making machine! Mini-Microsoft, Mini-Microsoft, lean-and-mean! (tags: microsoft blog kawasaki ) Life at Google - The Microsoftie Perspective « Just Say śNo ť To Google The most interesting part of this was 'free food'. By sp …
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2007-06-29 01:55 RE: Life at Google - The Microsoftie Perspective
Recently an email written by a newly hired Microsoft employee about life as a Google employee made the rounds on popular geek social news and social bookmarking sites such as Slashdot, Reddit, del.icio.us and Digg. The mail was forwarded around and posted to a blog without the permission of its original author. The author of the email (who should not be confused with the idiot who blogs at http://no2google.wordpress.com ) has posted a response which puts his email in context in addition to his r …
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2007-06-28 23:08 Google from a Microsoftie s perspective
This post has been backed up at Blogspot in case it disappears. It is about the alleged work environment at Google (USA) versus Microsoft (USA). It covers topics such as: What is the culture really like How many hours are people actually working What are the least amount of hours you can work before you [...]
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2007-06-28 05:50 Life at Google: The Microsoftie Perspective
The following has been making the rounds on just about every internal email list I belong to in Microsoft. Here it is to share a little insight with the rest of the world. Microsoft is an amazingly transparent company. Google is not. Any peek is a good peek.
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2007-06-27 17:06 Life at the Googleplex
An anonymous Microsoftie is running the contents of internal MS emails on his blog. Bad form and a serious breach of email etiquette (Never mind company policy) but it's published and now can't be unpublished. The contents of his post does give a nice look at life as a Googlebot. I'd like to believe that the management layer wasn't that flat for a company of Google's size but it makes sense when you consider how singular their market focus is and reminds me a lot of the Meta-programming model (A …
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2007-06-27 14:54 Google From a Microsoft Perspective
The entrance to Google Hamburg, Germany " Life at Google - The Microsoftie Perspective " is an alleged mail circulating on Microsoft-internal mailing lists. It checks the pros and cons of working for Google in comparison to the Microsoft culture. From that mail: <
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