Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Meeting with Ray Ozzie

Ray Ozzie, our Chief Software Architect ( before him, Bill Gates was our CSA ) has came to our development center and deliver a session( that includes a question and answer round ), it was a dream come true for lot us here.

It was a house-full session, around a few thousand engineers eagerly waiting to hear from him, though I found lot of us has preferred to view this meeting thru our internal web cast. I have been in the venue long before to make sure that I will get a chair at the front row, but to my surprise the whole room was almost filled up.
He has been introduced by our Development Center Manager, Srini Kopulu, after then he has delivered a session which covered about our products, the IT industry, how we are looking at the future etc, but no doubt the best round was the question and answer session, he has answered question relates to simple technology to complex architecture/model/prototype/ideas/problems, but the best question was …
“How( or what are the qualities required ) to become the CSA of Microsoft ? J, and I found this is the only question he took little time to think before answer, cause rest of the questions were all technical.
Overall, I have found him a very simple man, looks so down to earth, and very very techie, no doubt, it will reamin a memorable day for lot of us.

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