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February 10 I know, cry me a river...Working for Microsoft in Silicon Valley can be a surreal experience. Just the other day I ordered cheeseburger and the person serving me my lunch asked me if I knew that Google had invented the idea of cheesy meat between two slices of bread three years ago… and it's been in beta ever since. :-) Yeah, yeah, perhaps I’m being dramatic but sometimes I feel like Google is going to overshadow Al Gore and get credit for inventing the Internet.
Joke as I may, it does get to me every once in a while...especially when we've been working like crazy on something, already have it in market, have gotten great customer response, but everybody thinks someone else did it first. Case in point: looks like Google is in some sort of closed beta for a domains service and the digerati are all a-buzz. Hmmm... turns out some of my colleagues in Redmond launched a new domains service for Windows Live way back in November, it's open to the public AND we have a bunch of folks using it including a slew of universities around the world. <sigh> I know Microsoft isn't going to be first with everything… and I hope we're not, it's the competitive urge that really drives us to excel. Having really smart competitors like the people over at Google is what makes this job interesting... but c'mon folks, throw us a bone every once in a while... okay? I know for sure it’s time for the weekend… - Reeves Honest Abe said: "Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all." Comments (83)
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