Microsoft Personalities

You don’t think you can have blue hair and work at Microsoft?  Wrong.  You don’t think you can have blue hair, be a writer not a hard core geek, and be successful working at Microsoft?  Wrong again.  Meet Ariel Meadow Stallings, the brains behind Microspotting, the blog that…

The great Rico Mariani, software performance guru and Chief Architect of Visual Studio (we dig into what this role is exactly...), sits down with us to discuss what's on tap for the next iteration(s) of Visual Studio (Visual Studio 2010) and beyond... If you spend alot of time in VS, then you…

Sometimes Charles and Ritzy get really lucky in meeting people whose energy is truly contagious, as in the case of Corporate Vice President, Premium Mobile Experiences, Roz Ho.  In another edition of WM_IN, Roz tells us about her diverse experiences; from growing up in Hong Kong,…

Artists embody a diverse set of talents and interests. This gives them a rich array of experiences to draw upon in their work. In the same way, Richard Ward brings an eclectic background and collection of interests to his efforts at Microsoft.  He brings this diversity to his own art of…

This is the second part of the interview that Dan and Christian did with Bill Hill.  (See Part 1 here).   While many people know Bill from his work on True Type and his passion for improving screen readability, Bill is now working on improving Web readability in Internet Explorer and…

Bill Hill - the man, the myth, the legend is back on Channel 9! Christian "LittleGuru" Liensberger and I got a chance to catch up with Bill on his latest work... While many people know Bill from his work on True Type and his passion for improving screen readability, Bill is now…

Jillian Venters is a technical editor for ASP.NET within the developer division, editing documentation for Visual Web Developer to ensure all text and copy is clear and concise.  With a diverse background in games and music engineering, Jillian is another fantastic example of how you can…

On a very special This Week on Channel 9, Jeff Sandquist joins Dan and Brian in studio to discuss CNN's special Bill Gates slideshow narrated by Bill himself (0 - 2:00) Newsweek's update of the infamous New Mexico Microsoft company photo 30 years later (2:00 - 3:30) Jeff shares how Charles…

Betsy Hjort, principal program manager, turns the camera on Jennifer & Charles (literally!) as she tells us about her role on the Windows Server team and reflects about her tenure at the company over the last 12 years. Way back in the day Betsy was a Pascal coder, but things started to change…

I was able to visit Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta to see an old friend, Don Browning, and we were lucky enough to bring along Peter Provost to talk about agile methodologies, processes, and tools.