Matthew Baldwin is a foxy grandma
The geek in question: Matthew Baldwin
The job title: Programmer/Writer on the protocol documentation team.
So, what are you working on right now?
We have been creating technical specifications for the protocols used by Microsoft applications to communicate … okay, this is the moment where the eyes of the person who asked that question typically glaze over, so I’ve never actually come up with an ending for this sentence.
Is it awesome?
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Fola has a wingspan of over six feet
The geek in question: Fola Adeleke-Adedoyin
The job title: Developer, MSIT Relationship Experience Division (RXD)
So what are you working on?
I’m a developer with MSSolve, the Microsoft Services business incident management solution, which is on track to replace a 12-year Clarify legacy system with a Microsoft technology stack such as WPF, WCF, MS CRM Dynamics 4.0 (titan), and much more.
Goodness. I see you like acronyms. How long have you been at Microsoft, Land of the Acronym (LotA)?
A year and a half — although I did a six-month internship before that.
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Microsoft General Manager Megan Wallent
Talking about transparency, transgender health care coverage, and ushering out the era of table-pounding Microsoft managers with General Manager Megan Wallent, formerly known as Michael Wallent.
What are you working on right now?
Right now I’m the general manager of an unnamed group.
…Ha! Pure Microsoft!
My group is the conglomeration of a bunch of different things including Power Shell, Server Management UI, the over-all Server UI models, plus a bunch of other infrastructure pieces, plus Softgrid. So, we don’t really have an all-up name for it, but the pseudo-name is WinMan.
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A writer for MSW shares his experience going through LASIK. Microsoft’s benefits provided incentive for the vision correcting surgery.
By Joshua Isaac
February 18, 2008
“Look at the light, Josh,” the doctor said.
Joshua Isaac poses with his wife Kim, and children Jacob, Sam, and Sophie prior to LASIK eye surgery. He used corrective lenses for over 20 years.
From what I’ve been told, that’s not something one should do in an operating room during a procedure—or is that run to the light?—but despite what I’ve heard, I try anyway to focus on the small orange blinking light. My right eye surgery went fine just minutes earlier, but my left eye refuses to stay in one place. It keeps crawling back from the light and the doctor’s wishes.
“Keep looking at the light.”
Of course I want to shut my eyes, but a small clamp holds the lids open. I peer as best I can into the light. Meanwhile, three technicians shuffle around me in the darkened operating room as the doctor pokes away. After a brief suction noise that goes “swoosh-swoosh,” followed by a slight buzzing, the procedure ends—no more than 20 minutes in all.
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Employees report increased productivity and reduced stress, thanks to The Connector. The free Microsoft bus service is poised for expansion.
By Fred Albert, January 24, 2008
The Connector offers two models of buses: a 28-seater for city streets and a 49-seater (shown) for suburban routes.
It used to take Bryan Rutberg anywhere from 25 to 45 minutes to drive from his Seattle home to Microsoft’s Redmond campus. Unfortunately, the drive home was much less predictable, occasionally stretching to two hours due to the daily backups on Highway 520. “It drove me crazy and sent my blood pressure skyrocketing,” said Rutberg, director of the Redmond Executive Briefing Center. It got to the point where he stopped drinking water after 2 p.m., for fear of being trapped in traffic when nature called.
Three or four times a week now, Rutberg leaves his Saturn LS2 at home and commutes via The Connector, the free, WiFi-equipped bus service that Microsoft introduced to much fanfare last September. The Connector picks Rutberg up one and a half blocks from his home on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill and deposits him at the Overlake Transit Center bordering the Microsoft campus, where a shuttle transports him to his office.
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