Geek in question: Omar Shahine
Job title: Lead Program Manager in Hotmail, based in Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus (SVC)
How is working for Microsoft in Silicon Valley different from working in Redmond?
Working for Microsoft down here humbles you a bit. Being in the Valley gives you a different perception of Microsoft’s role in the industry … Google’s less than a mile over that way. Yahoo’s a mile over there. We all have friends and spouses who work both places. Proximity gives you a different perspective than what you have in Redmond, where you’re surrounded tens of thousands of Microsoft employees.
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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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Steve Clayton likes the forest.
The geek in question: Steve Clayton
The job title: Software plus Services Lead
Let’s start with the easy stuff – what are you working on right now?
I’m working on Software plus Services strategy in a part of the company called Microsoft International.
You were also involved in that whole Blue Monster thing a year or two back, right? How is the Blue Monster aging?
Hugh McLeod did the cartoon, and he was just asking me, “What should we do now?”
I said, “We don’t do anything. We created this thing that’s out there — it splits opinion and inspires dialog. It’s got a life of its own.” I don’t push it, but I still get mail from people about it.
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