Bill Baker has left the building...http://blogs.msdn.com/knight_reign/archive/2008/08/09/bill-baker-has-left-the-building.aspxFew people can call their boss their friend. In my case, he was both and more. Bill was a guy that I could talk to about anything. He was my mentor and opened doors for me in ways that I never thought possible. He's leaving Microsoft and I believe Microsoften-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)a-foton &raquo; Bill Baker has left the building&#8230;http://blogs.msdn.com/knight_reign/archive/2008/08/09/bill-baker-has-left-the-building.aspx#8844597Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:59:23 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8844597a-foton &raquo; Bill Baker has left the building&#8230;<p>PingBack from <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blog.a-foton.ru/2008/08/bill-baker-has-left-the-building/">http://blog.a-foton.ru/2008/08/bill-baker-has-left-the-building/</a></p> re: Bill Baker has left the building...http://blogs.msdn.com/knight_reign/archive/2008/08/09/bill-baker-has-left-the-building.aspx#8845297Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:04:17 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8845297sqlartist<p>I met Bill a number of times through the MVP program and at various SQL conferences and always felt better for it. I wonder if he hadn't pushed 'BI for the masses' for all these years would the SQL BI features be as good as they are?</p>re: Bill Baker has left the building...http://blogs.msdn.com/knight_reign/archive/2008/08/09/bill-baker-has-left-the-building.aspx#8845516Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:51:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8845516Brady<P>Most of those working directly for Bill paint a different picture. In the day to day work Bill is rude, distrustful and damaging to his own team. He simply had done so much damage he was not left with enough people in the team to be able to deliver.</P> <P>Bill had lost his support inside of MS and had to go.</P> <P>MS is a better place without Bill.</P>re: Bill Baker has left the building...http://blogs.msdn.com/knight_reign/archive/2008/08/09/bill-baker-has-left-the-building.aspx#9374202Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:40:38 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9374202Knight_Reign<p>To Brady, I think that there are some who felt that way about Bill. I can't speak to those experiences. I never witnessed Bill behave that way. I did however witness some pretty boneheaded behavior by some of the people that worked with Bill and watched him patiently try to correct it... </p>