Here is your definitive proof!!!
Someone got a hold of an old email Bill sent complaining about not being able to find "MovieMaker" (simple program for editing video which one of my groups developed) Digital Plus Pack (also developed in my team). Here is one of our local reports, Dave Ross, reading the email and ahem, pausing on my name because he can't pronounce it (should be a firing offence! ):
What Dave Ross laments not happening was actually the norm. Bill would send many of these emails as would other executives and employees at large. Indeed it was ingrained in Microsoft culture to be highly self-critical.
Here is a copy of what was triggered from Bill's complaint read above: https://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/files/library/2003Jangatesmoviemaker.pdf
I don't remember the original email Bill is referring to.
Anyway, as you see there, I agreed that it was screwed up and fed it to my team to get it fixed.
Nothing to be proud of here of course but someone who knew me then sent it to me and I thought I share it here.
Someone got a hold of an old email Bill sent complaining about not being able to find "MovieMaker" (simple program for editing video which one of my groups developed) Digital Plus Pack (also developed in my team). Here is one of our local reports, Dave Ross, reading the email and ahem, pausing on my name because he can't pronounce it (should be a firing offence! ):
What Dave Ross laments not happening was actually the norm. Bill would send many of these emails as would other executives and employees at large. Indeed it was ingrained in Microsoft culture to be highly self-critical.
Here is a copy of what was triggered from Bill's complaint read above: https://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/files/library/2003Jangatesmoviemaker.pdf
I don't remember the original email Bill is referring to.
Anyway, as you see there, I agreed that it was screwed up and fed it to my team to get it fixed.
Nothing to be proud of here of course but someone who knew me then sent it to me and I thought I share it here.