| Ah thanks for jogging memory in regards to the names. :) > Neither one had any official impact on ratings, rewards, or career velocity. Ah interesting, my understanding was that people who can gone through HiPo were sorta blessed. Then again I guess in theory the people who get selected for HiPo should already be doing the work to make their career velocity look good. I saw all sorts of interesting stuff while I was at MS. It was a crazy place to work. It was sort of like working at a company that does everything 5-8 years too early, and then tries again 2-3 years too late. * Tablets
* eBooks
* MP3 players
* Smartphones
* Smart TVs (Micorosft bought Web TV in 1997!! That is what, 15-20 years too early?)
* Tablets again
* Cloud based document syncing (See: What Sharepoint tried to be) They also made some sort of automation creation tool for business users that, IIRC, got cancelled after one release and replaced with something else. I only know about it because I signed up to do internal user testing for it. This is on top of all sorts of crazy one off projects. (In 2011 I was on a team attempting to make an autonomous household robot! How long before those become a viable thing outside of Roombas?) |