Ten Years Later...

It was ten years ago today that I joined Microsoft as a full time employee.  When I started we were just finishing Windows 98.  Microsoft was around 25,000 employees.  My first job was testing DVD playback in the operating system.  Since then I've reported to 5 managers, resided in 5 buildings, occupied 8 different offices, and shipped 6 operating systems.  I also had a hand in shipping several versions each of IE, Windows Media Player, and Windows Media Center.  Ten years later, something like 17 products under my belt, and I'm still having fun.  I guess I chose the right profession.

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 16, 2008
  Good for you man, I wish I can say that too :(

• Anonymous
  March 16, 2008
  Do you have any idea why Microsoft won't say which patents they think we violated?

• Anonymous
  March 16, 2008
  Congratulations on your 10 year anniversary. I strongly believe that if you're going to be spending a third of your life doing something, it better be something you enjoy doing. What a miserable life it must be -- I wouldn't know -- to wake up and not look forward to what the day at work might bring. If I go to work for a week and don't walk in with a spring in my step at least one of those days, it's time to find another job.  I'm glad you've found a decade of fun, engaging, challenging, enjoyable, fascinating work. And bonus: I hear they pay you for it, too.

• Anonymous
  March 16, 2008
  That is awesome.  Congrats Steve.   What is it gonna be tomorrow?  M&M's? Jelly Beans?   I, for one, would recommend 10 lbs of raw tofu.  

• Anonymous
  March 17, 2008
  Congrats Steve! on completing 10 years in Microsoft.

• Anonymous
  March 17, 2008
  Where're 10 pounds of M&Ms?

• Anonymous
  March 19, 2008
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