November 2005 - Posts

Who is your most knowledgeable contact:-)
23 November 05 03:07 PM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

Encarta of course. 1. Open MSN Messenger and sign in. 2. Add Encarta as a contact: encarta@conversagent.com 3. Double click Encarta from your Contact List. 4. Ask a question! Thanks Ivo!! Read More...

Worldwide Enterprise Services - Microsoft's UN
23 November 05 03:02 PM | Ivan Joseph | 1 Comments   

So many nationalities here - the diversity is stunning. The numbers below are just for Hardeep's team courtesy of Todd Latham our 'world citizen':-) Nationality Total USA 29 India 7 Mexico 3 UK 3 Brazil 2 Canada 2 Netherlands 2 Belgium 1 Chile 1 China Read More...

Mobile Phones - the most successful consumer product in history
23 November 05 11:55 AM | Ivan Joseph | 2 Comments   

In terms of sheer numbers and adoption rate that certainly seems to be the case. The latest figures are startling. Gartner reports that about 800 million phones will ship in 2005! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4459278.stm Let's think of other consumer Read More...

Chatting with some Tepper (CMU) MBA's
18 November 05 10:39 AM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

Pradeep U.N. of ping pong and SBSA notoreity arranged for me to chat with 5 Tepper students, all of whom have been selected for second round interviews here. Enjoyed chatting with them - they had a bunch of questions about interviewing, working here and Read More...

Windows Embedded Student ChallengE Announced
17 November 05 11:22 AM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

Just super thrilled to learn of the announcement of year 3 of the Windows Embedded Student ChallengE. ( www.windowschallenge.com ) This is a competition that I started 2 years ago and saw it grow to an internationally successful event. We touched the Read More...

East side versus West side - the economic argument:-)
16 November 05 11:14 AM | Ivan Joseph | 1 Comments   

This is something that comes up so often in our discussions so is worthy of a post IMO. People live on either side of the bridge - Redmond is on the East, Seattle is on the west. Let's apply simple economic thinking (economics is after all the study of Read More...

Questions from an MIT/Sloan MBA
11 November 05 12:53 PM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

I got the following questions from a friend of a friend who is interviewing with Microsoft. Thought I'd post it here as well so others can read. Please note that these are just my views. From an insider’s perspective, to what extent are the skill-sets Read More...

Working in Microsoft
10 November 05 10:29 AM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

There must be a million blogs out there about this so what difference is one more going to make? Not much I guess but one of my colleagues here - Pradeep U.N. - yeah same guy who rigged the Ping Pong schedule:-) is blogging on working in the Enterprise Read More...

Bldg 121 Cafe- - what a gem
08 November 05 11:37 AM | Ivan Joseph | 0 Comments   

Didn't realize that I would get as an 'unintended consequence' of this new job, proximity to Bldg 121 cafe. The menu is truly international - for someone who loves Indian / South Asian food this is the campus destination. On my first day I had chicken Read More...

Ping Pong and some other thoughts
08 November 05 11:30 AM | Ivan Joseph | 1 Comments   

We had a Ping Pong tornament last week on the 3rd floor. Turned out to be a lot of fun. I won one of the brackets - My first round was with Hardeep and 'ping pong diplomacy' it wasn't (something that Pradeep contrived in the draw - will I ever forgive Read More...