Talking Microsoft

Powershell interview with Jeffrey Snover

James ONeill — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:29:08 GMT

Powershell with Jeffrey Snover (IT Forum 2007)

At IT forum in Barcelona, I went to the powershell community dinner which was hosted by Jeffrey Snover. A couple of comments were made after the dinner, one to the effect that "If anyone in Microsoft has the right to be a bit arrogant, its Jeffrey - but he isn't ! , and another "He was so interested what I was doing I missed my chance to quiz him about the future".
I asked him if he would do an interview: "Sure !" he said, "Tomorrow morning ?" - so he squeezed me in to a very busy schedule. Then I didn't start the voice recorder properly and we had to record the whole interview a second time.
I'm pretty pleased with the interview - Jeffrey also explains why he makes time for communities - it's not just because he's a nice guy it makes commercial sense.

I need to say a quick thank you to David for helping me get this hosted on Technet EDGE I've got more stuff in the queue :-)

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Interview with Christine Betts.

James ONeill — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:27:00 GMT

Christine is a Senior Director of Microsoft - and ultimately responsible for a lot of the programmes I work on. She's a Brit living in Redmond and she came over for Tech-ed IT forum back in November: over dinner she seemed so approachable that I asked if she'd do a video for us. We start by talking about here role as head of Audience Marketing and the role of evangelists (or what I'm doing here), and get on to mentoring and what it's like doing a job like hers. Even if you're not in IT there are couple of great "life and work" quotes in there. I said that Gordon Frazer was as pleasant off camera as he was on it, and Christine was the same. Nice people do make it to the top in Microsoft.

You can watch the video below or click the attached audio at the bottom.

Video: Christine Betts Interview with James O'Neill

Well that took a while ...

James ONeill — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:15:00 GMT

When we first had the idea we didn't realise the number of obstacles there were to getting content posted.

We wanted content you could either view in-situ or download. We wanted easy uploads for ourselves. We wanted people to be able to subscribe via RSS. We wanted to know who how many readers bothered to listen-to or watch the content. We wanted a bunch of things and we couldn't get all of them. And we've spent quite a lot of time tied up in Red-Tape. Eventually we got permission to circumvent all of it and post Videos to the (still beta) Soapbox service. That won't be the early service we use over the next few posts, as those awfully nice people at TechNet Radio are also hosting some audio for us. Hopefully we'll get this service back on track.

Gordon Frazer Managing Director of Microsoft UK... let's start at the top

James ONeill — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:30:00 GMT

This is the first post on what we hope will be a long lived audio and Video blog site. If you want to know more about us click about link.

Microsoft UK have a new Managing Director. On the day his appointment was announced, I asked Gordon if he would appear in the first of these videos, and he said yes. When he'd been in the job for just 3 days, we recorded this interview with him.Off camera he was just as friendly and personable as he appears on it, and we've said we'll do another one in a few months time.

Click to play (WMV format)

Or Click to download (Zipped WMV).