Feeling Nostalgic - Prelude

A few posts ago, I mentioned that I just hit my 10 year milestone at MS. In my current position, I get a chance to interact a lot with new hires in the testing discipline - this has triggered quite a bit of reflection on my part. Things have changed a lot in the last ten years, and I figured it would be interesting (or at the very least, therapeutic for me) to reflect on how I started at Microsoft, what my roles were at the time, and how things have changed - both at Microsoft, and in the general world of software testing (with plenty of my own opinions thrown in for fun).