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Let me just say thanks for your work on VB. It changed everything for me. I pirated it (I didn’t even know of any place that sold it) from a guy spanned over ho
by mittermayr 6y ago
Let me just say thanks for your work on VB. It changed everything for me. I pirated it (I didn’t even know of any place that sold it) from a guy spanned over however many disks it took, and I ran with it. Once I’d realised it was made by Microsoft, I made a note in my career journal at school that I want to work there one day. It took me a good decade, but I eventually got that job in Redmond. Must have been an interesting time in Seattle back then.
- tomcam 6y agoWorking in the VB team was by far the greatest professional experience of my life. The people were lovely and brilliant to a person. Nothing like going to lunch with Tim Patersen or Anders Hejlsberg or Eric Lippert and asking about technical stuff I’d wondered about for a decade. Congratulations on making it there yourself! What groups did you work in?
- mittermayr 6y agoOffice, a little bit of Lync, video conferencing research, and then competitive intelligence stuff. It did feel like the interesting times had long passed when I arrived (just when Bill Gates left), and often thought about what it must have been like.