David Davies From Microsoft

[tobywuk]

*note: please can you move this topic to computer chat. my college network wont let me access that forum, as the url contains the keyword "chat"


David Davies, who is a security manager for microsoft in seattle and worked for cisco, is comming to my college tomorow to give a talk.

He is going to talk about how he got to where he is now, the work he does and a little about other microsoft features such as Vista.

It should be intreting to hear what he has to say, and give some question. if anyone has any good question suggestions i could ask?

 

[Shady]

Ask him when he first started college what exactly did he do till he got his first job at Microsoft !
I mean what courses did he study and what are the most important courses in his major and so on.

 

[tobywuk]

he is already going to talk about that in the lecture.

 

[Shady]

Then if you can record it or anything it would be nice
Or you can just tell me what he said.

 

[apj101]

ask him what the most exciting project he worked on is
or how about what an average day would be
or maybe what he considers the kill skill for his profession to be

 

[tlarkin]

Ask him if windows is so secure why are they buying technology from novell, and on top of that novell's linux side of things? Are they trying to destroy linux? Will there be a MS Linux?

http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2005/10/memo_to_microso.html

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2085896,00.asp

http://search.techrepublic.com.com/search/novell+and+microsoft+corp..html?&c=1&s=0&m=20&o=0&i=0&t=0

and most importantly, how did this moron become CEO of Microsoft? I say run to the hills why you can, and he will drag this company down with him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4734578294758407158

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_AP3SGMxxM

Seriously, Ballmer is a huge idiot.

 

[Cromewell]

Can you ask him if he'll hire me?

In all seriousness, I'm with shady on this one, record it if you can I'd like to hear what he has to say.

 

[tobywuk]

i cant really record it as i don't have the equipment to do so, and im not sure if they will even allow it. I will come back and let everyone know what he said. questions i have so far are:


*Why is Microsoft buying technology from novell and is this an effort to destroy linux?

*Why did Microsoft make steve ballmer CEO of microsoft?

 

[tobywuk]

I had the talk. i wrote a short review Here