Year 4 – Chapter 1: The Beginning of the End

by skyrien

Xander’s College Life: Year 4

Chapter 1: The Beginning of the End…

Hey there. It’s been almost half a year since I made a real post here, and its beginning to seem like everyone else is too busy living their lives as well to spend any more time to reflect and blog for the benefit of themselves and others.

Oh well, I feared this would happen years ago. So much has happened over the past 6 months that there’s no way I can do any meaningful catch up in a single entry. So much will change over the next few to come, that I don’t think I’ll be able to keep up.

Alas, I’ll leave whatever readership I have left with this song, and hope that it’ll be enough to remind you that life goes on still…

Keep in touch, people! I’ll be around…

-Xander

Better watch out GOOG, MSFT is coming…

by skyrien

Balmer

Ballmer on a roll (lol… you don’t wanna mess with this guy)

At yesterday’s Intern Product Fair, our CEO Steve Ballmer spoke to us at length about why he’s so passionate about Microsoft, why he’s so excited that so many new interns are coming every year… and blah blah… great speech, and a great Q&A session afterwards.

(Paraphrased)

Intern: So, Steve… when are we going to (1) buy, or (2) destroy Google?

(howls of laughter from interns, Ballmer looks amused/incredulous)

SteveB: Whoa… I’m not even allowed to use words like that anymore…

(more laughter)

SteveB: I can tell you one thing though… it won’t be the first option…

(interns ‘oooh’)

I was highly amused. SteveB later talked about the anti-trust issues involved, but it was funny nonetheless. Great talk, glad I went.

From Knowledge@Wharton :

Ballmer recalls a question once posed to him by an intern: Where will Microsoft be 25 years from now? After some thought, Ballmer says, the only thing he could predict is that “we’re going to have great people…. And if we have great people and we have a leadership position today, then everything will take care of itself,” says Ballmer. “We’ll be driving the leading edge of technology. We’ll be making good money. We’ll be earning good returns for shareholders and all of that kind of stuff. But at the end of the day, the only thing that could be the magnetic north compass for the place over the next 25 years has got to be this notion of prioritization of people.”