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clayton1  ballmer  L1000783

That’s how many years I have been at Microsoft as of today. Wow, it flew by…I earned some grey hairs along the way but wouldn’t change a thing. Here’s 12 random facts to mark the occasion

  1. My first Microsoft laptop had 16mb of RAM and a floppy drive…and it still boots. But it weighs ~7lbs (3.1kg)
  2. My current laptop has 2GB of RAM, a 128GB SSD drive and weighs 650g
  3. I’ve owned at least 12 different Microsoft keyboards. Way more mice but the Starck remains my favourite.
  4. The most frequent question I get when I say I work at Microsoft is have I met Bill Gates. Yep met him twice – nice bloke :)
  5. I worked on SharePoint back when it was Tahoe…nice to be at the start of a $1bn business
  6. I worked on Windows phone back when it was Stinger and had one of these
  7. I’ve taken over 200 flights and never missed a single one. Yet!
  8. I’ve played basketball against Steve Ballmer. He’s big. And tough.
  9. My scariest meeting was with Nokia…long story but it was a weird house in Espoo.
  10. I once started a TV channel at Microsoft. A tonne of fun but now dead :(
  11. I admit it, I owned a Microsoft Barney. I consider it part of my pension now.
  12. I’ve sent well over 50k emails since I started here, written over 3000 blog entries and over 5000 tweets . Not sure that’s a good thing.

Will I be here in another 12 years? Wouldn’t surprise me at all.

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