Your exit interview of me

July 2, 2006 By

Someone commented that Wired News didn’t ask me the questions that they really were interested in.

Now that I’m out of Microsoft, what would you like to know? I’ll try to answer each of your questions here in the comment area.

If you’re looking for the bodies, though, they are all in building 7. :-)

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  • Richard

    What really happened to Longhorn? It was such an ambitious and groundbreaking product around PDC 2003. Vista is NOT Longhorn!

  • Dmad

    @16. 60,000 employees, and you find a rather large percentage that have no clue who Scoble WAS or why they should think he mattered? I’m shocked!!! Shocked I tell you!

  • Dmad

    @16. 60,000 employees, and you find a rather large percentage that have no clue who Scoble WAS or why they should think he mattered? I’m shocked!!! Shocked I tell you!

  • Dmad

    Why did you keep whining about your less than $100,000/yr salary? Do you were fairly compensated
    for carrying around a camera and interviewing people that actually worked on products that were intended to make money for the company?

  • Dmad

    Why did you keep whining about your less than $100,000/yr salary? Do you were fairly compensated
    for carrying around a camera and interviewing people that actually worked on products that were intended to make money for the company?

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ictreligion Jawahar Mundlapti

    Will you revive “talkingmoose” ?

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ictreligion Jawahar Mundlapti

    Will you revive “talkingmoose” ?

  • Enzo304

    For the upcoming generations, like those whom have just graduated from college or high school, would you recommend working at Microsoft? Or would you suggest anywhere else?

  • Enzo304

    For the upcoming generations, like those whom have just graduated from college or high school, would you recommend working at Microsoft? Or would you suggest anywhere else?

  • Sarah

    Why did you decide to work at MS?

    Did you feel that the noncompete agreement limited you from working where you really wanted to work (upon deciding to leave)?

    What advice would you give to a junior employee?

    plus the question from poster #31 would be of great interest to me too. :)

    Thanks for opening up the floor to questions – looking forward to the answers! This is great!

  • Sarah

    Why did you decide to work at MS?

    Did you feel that the noncompete agreement limited you from working where you really wanted to work (upon deciding to leave)?

    What advice would you give to a junior employee?

    plus the question from poster #31 would be of great interest to me too. :)

    Thanks for opening up the floor to questions – looking forward to the answers! This is great!

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ Robert Scoble

    Sarah, and everyone else, I’ve now answered all these questions. I think that’s enough. Plus there’ll be an exit interview on Channel 9. OK, I’ve gotten Microsoft out of my system. Heheh.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ Robert Scoble

    Sarah, and everyone else, I’ve now answered all these questions. I think that’s enough. Plus there’ll be an exit interview on Channel 9. OK, I’ve gotten Microsoft out of my system. Heheh.

  • uma

    @28 To Dmad: I said a “sample” population (and not 60k)- please refer back to your Statistics-101.

    And a sample population could hypothetically be my building or my division or my lunch group. Or maybe I hang out with the trolls underneath a firewall.

    The inference point I was trying to make is : to have a large percent of a sample population not know Scoble surprised me, considering the folks at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/ think it is important to read Scoble.

  • uma

    @28 To Dmad: I said a “sample” population (and not 60k)- please refer back to your Statistics-101.

    And a sample population could hypothetically be my building or my division or my lunch group. Or maybe I hang out with the trolls underneath a firewall.

    The inference point I was trying to make is : to have a large percent of a sample population not know Scoble surprised me, considering the folks at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/ think it is important to read Scoble.

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  • Joe Baressi

    Robert, I know I’m a little late getting in on this exit interview game, but if you will take one more question I’d be grateful:

    What have you heard about why Mark Zbikowski left Microsoft? I had just watched his Channel 9 interview and then turn around and find out he’s gone. And I LOVED his interview, perhaps my all-time Channel 9 favorite.

    If there’s one guy who could have singlehandedly given Microsoft a true-blue-coder friendly reputation, it’s Mark Zbikowski.

    And now he’s gone. Jesus Christ. Maybe Microsoft’s best days really are in the past.

  • Joe Baressi

    Robert, I know I’m a little late getting in on this exit interview game, but if you will take one more question I’d be grateful:

    What have you heard about why Mark Zbikowski left Microsoft? I had just watched his Channel 9 interview and then turn around and find out he’s gone. And I LOVED his interview, perhaps my all-time Channel 9 favorite.

    If there’s one guy who could have singlehandedly given Microsoft a true-blue-coder friendly reputation, it’s Mark Zbikowski.

    And now he’s gone. Jesus Christ. Maybe Microsoft’s best days really are in the past.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ Robert Scoble

    Joe: from what I hear he just wanted to retire and enjoy the rest of his life. He’s worked at Microsoft for 25 years. That’s an awful long time. No one stays at a company forever.

    Look not at the people who built Microsoft in the past. The most interesting ideas are being done by interns who haven’t even graduated from college yet. My favorite feature in OneNote, for instance, was built by an intern three summers ago.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ Robert Scoble

    Joe: from what I hear he just wanted to retire and enjoy the rest of his life. He’s worked at Microsoft for 25 years. That’s an awful long time. No one stays at a company forever.

    Look not at the people who built Microsoft in the past. The most interesting ideas are being done by interns who haven’t even graduated from college yet. My favorite feature in OneNote, for instance, was built by an intern three summers ago.

  • Mike

    D you use M$ products on a regular basis?

  • Mike

    D you use M$ products on a regular basis?

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