Microsoft
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The End of an Era
(For me anyway). Today was my last day at Microsoft. I’m going to see if there is life beyond the 98052 zip code and make sure I avoid any future tolls on the 520 bridge. Microsoft was a phenomenal experience and I had the opportunity to work with an amazing array of people. The company…
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What Transpired with Wired?
Two posts in one week and both about the same issue of Wired no less. Yesterday’s kerfuffle in which Wired is “shocked, shocked” to learn there is a PR industry has been all over the blogosphere. Microsoft screwed up by accidentally sending Fred Vogelstein of Wired the internal briefing document written for the folks he was interviewing. …
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Uninspired by Wired
The April issue has an article entitled “Desktop R.I.P.” that enthuses breathlessly about “computing moving off your machine and into the cloud”. I talked to the reporter, Jason Tanz, for this article a couple months ago (real-time Wired isn’t). Tanz, whose byline suggests his most eminent qualification to do the story was writing a book about Hip-Hop in…
