MSRA intern here. I'm a 31 PhD student with six years of work experience in two startups and a middle-sized software company. Microsoft (Research) is a great pl

MSRA intern here. I'm a 31 PhD student with six years of work experience in two startups and a middle-sized software company. Microsoft (Research) is a great place to work simply because there's lots of really, really smart people here. And for the record, I mainly use Linux on my desktop and nobody cares :)