Emailing Steve Ballmer

 

Kris pointed me to this blog posting by Steven Verbruggen who decided to take SteveB up on his assertion that he reads his own email by sending him an email with some questions around our developer products.

Hats off to the boss – he replied and redirected Steven to S. Somasegar who subsequently followed up on the blog and then in the comments with this:

Over the last several years, we have tried to be more engaged and transparent with the community. That is definitely something that I have been a big proponent of in the Developer Division at Microsoft.

Also, Steve is usually pretty good at responding to people who reach out to him with suggestions, thoughts and ideas.

- somasegar

 

Respect.

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 16, 2008
  Thx for picking this up Steve. Respect Indeed! Steven. (it's Verbruggen BTW :))

• Anonymous
  May 16, 2008
  Steve invited us MVPs at the recent MVP summit to email him with any questions. I did so ("When will Zune be relesed in Europe?") and got back a reply later that day. Ray Ozzie said the same. I'm still waiting for a reply from him :) -Jamie

• Anonymous
  May 16, 2008
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• Anonymous
  May 16, 2008
  Hey Ballmer, Why don't you respond to me = unless taking Google down is off your radar now....nah laurabull@aol.com

• Anonymous
  May 16, 2008
  Yep,I'll be there Gareth - can't wait to sample the heat of Houston....urrgh! Steve