After two weeks working here at Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington campus, I’ve been told I need to write a blog post 🙂 So here goes..

Two weeks ago I flew to Seattle from Richmond, Virginia to take a contract with Microsoft.  My job is to process incoming feedback and bugs from the Technical Beta programs, and to analyze that feedback and coordinate it with the appropriate development teams, as well as test leads for the Windows Beta such as Jeff DeVos, Paul Donnelly, Sam White, Todd Frederickson, Tenny Cho, and others. 

I’m still waiting to move into a room I rented starting on June 1, so until then I’ve alternated staying with a couple of guys on the team — and one night I even stayed in the luxiorious “Hotel Microsoft” — I have a sleeping bag (picture below), and ordered a pizza delivered to the front of my building — it’s truley an awesome company to work for 🙂

As many of you (okay, mostly all of you) know, we shipped Beta 2 of the Windows Vista operating system to partners and testers on May 24th.  We’re as excited internally (if not more so) about getting that out to you guys and hearing your thoughts and feedback on it.  I’m actually writing this blog post from a x64 build 5384.4 (same as you guys) machine right now, and I can say it rocks — we’ve truely come a long way on Vista, but it’s mainly due to the great feedback you guys give.  So on behalf of myself and all of us here at Microsoft, thanks 🙂

Anyway, I’ll write more as time permits –

-Patrick Elliott