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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>German MVP Interviews Steve Ballmer!</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/mvpawardprogram/archive/2009/05/18/german-mvp-interviews-steve-ballmer.aspx</link><description>At the recent Microsoft Partner Event Software Strategy Summit, MVP Damir Tomicic interviewed Steve Ballmer at the end of his keynote. Damir, asked questions ranging from the current financial challenges to how Steve manages his daily “email flood”, which</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>German MVP Interviews Steve Ballmer! | ASP NET Hosting</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/mvpawardprogram/archive/2009/05/18/german-mvp-interviews-steve-ballmer.aspx#9625125</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 14:36:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9625125</guid><dc:creator>German MVP Interviews Steve Ballmer! | ASP NET Hosting</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;PingBack from &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://asp-net-hosting.simplynetdev.com/german-mvp-interviews-steve-ballmer/"&gt;http://asp-net-hosting.simplynetdev.com/german-mvp-interviews-steve-ballmer/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Nice story. Unfortunately it was not the MVP, but the RD status that got him do it!</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/mvpawardprogram/archive/2009/05/18/german-mvp-interviews-steve-ballmer.aspx#9658433</link><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 00:24:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9658433</guid><dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;There used to be times when RDs could not be MVPs. But as requests raised for the freebies that MVPs got but RDs did not, MS did one of their major community mistakes. Anyway.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While Damir may be an MVP, from a Microsoft perspective he first and foremost is one of the only four German Microsoft Regional Directors. Which is what got him to interview Steve in Cologne. End of story.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>