Anyone who’s read this space will know that I give Microsoft a hard time on any number of fronts – cross-platform support for one, open source positioning (Matusow excepted) for another – but I’ve really gotta hand it to them: hiring, they get. Big time. <\/p>\n
Yesterday I read with interest of Don These moves speak to Microsoft’s willingness to consider in its people what it often won’t surface in its products: cross platform experience. This is not a new trend for Microsoft; they’ve long been a vacuum for talented minds regardless of technical background, but I think it is an interesting counterpoint to the notion that Microsoft has trouble hiring. <\/p>\n Update<\/strong>: Forgot to acknowledge the possibility that this is all an April Fool’s joke \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Update 2<\/b>: Richard just dropped me a note pointing out a rather egregious error on my part. It seems that some reading on a thread concerning Don Park and Atom bled over when I wrote this this morning, as Richard very politely pointed out to me. It was in fact Don Box (MS programming god whom I mentioned in passing here<\/a>), not Park, who offered Richard the gig. Thanks for the correction, Richard. <\/p>\n Update 3<\/b>: Hahaha, I got punk’d. Raible fooled me good<\/a>, although in my defense it was good enough that it fooled lots of other folks as well, including News.com<\/a> \ud83d\ude09 Anyhow, the point still stands; Raible might not be headed there, but Microsoft is very creative about their hiring. See some further illumination from Don Box on the subject here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anyone who’s read this space will know that I give Microsoft a hard time on any number of fronts – cross-platform support for one, open source positioning (Matusow excepted) for another – but I’ve really gotta hand it to them: hiring, they get. Big time. Yesterday I read with interest of Don Park Box trying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-headlines"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Park<\/strike> Box trying to snag<\/a> Richard Monson-Haefel, a 10 year Java veteran (Richard turned them down out of a desire to not move to Redmond). And then today I see the news that another long time Java guy, Matt Raible (whom you may remember from an earlier post<\/a> of mine), just one day after discussing<\/a> his career path, has accepted a job<\/a> with the Visual Studio team as a developer\/evangelist. Of particular interest is the focus that he’ll have with the VS team: Ajax (like it or not, folks, the term is here to stay). <\/p>\n