> At Microsoft, I've had access to the source code for Halo 1 & 2, Internet Explorer, MDAC, MSXML, the .NET Frameworks and CLR, SQL Server, SQLXML, Virtual PC,

> At Microsoft, I've had access to the source code for Halo 1 & 2, Internet Explorer, MDAC, MSXML, the .NET Frameworks and CLR, SQL Server, SQLXML, Virtual PC, Visual Studio, Windows, the Xbox and Xbox Live, and probably several other projects that I've forgotten about. Does it get better than this? This is horrible! Sure you get to see the internal stuff, but in 2004 you were also forbidden from looking at any open source software. So sure you could see a handful of software titles that you can list on your fingers, but the millions of other programs you couldn't. How can someone that says "I love source code. I love reading it, writing it, thinking about it." possibly have been happy about being walled off from the rest of the software world? The last section on influence was wrong in hindsight. Sure Microsoft had influence in the 90's, but if you joined them in 2004 I can hardly think of them as influential in the last decade. Incremental improvement with a lot of churn for churn sake.