I enjoy the reactions I get when I tell people outside of the Puget Sound areas that I work for Microsoft. I always get some sort of reaction like "wow, that is interesting" or "oh really? I use Google" or sometimes it's an odd tech support question.
Some interesting snippets from recent wedding visit back east:
- My good friend (the groom) was explaining to me how he liked OpenOffice, since it was free. He has a small engineering business. However, when he used it to create a sign up sheet for the hotel/wedding site shuttle, he couldn't get the table to print out with lines around the boxes. He went through menu after menu, option and after option, but still couldn't get it to print right. He finally switched over to Word on his PC and printed it in five minutes. I guess free isn't always "free."
- I was chatting with one of the groom's friends and he noticed my Windows Mobile phone (T-Mo Dash with Windows Mobile 6). He asked what it was and I ran through a few scenarios - follow up flags in Outlook mobile, seeing attendees in meeting events, etc. He showed me his Treo - a hulking mass with the extra battery taped to the back, which was loaded with the Good Technology email client. I mentioned that with Windows Mobile you don't need any extra clients or servers - just type in your exchange server name and you're good to go, plus the Dash is about one third as thick as his Treo. For the capper I showed him Live Search for Windows Mobile, which rocks, as I had heard him talking about Google Maps on his Treo.
One customer at a time. :)
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