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RE: Interns win top prize for Windows Phone 7 app

Check Out This Awesome RSS Reader for Windows Phone 7 — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:37:30 GMT

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RE: Connor: viral videos for a cause

Interns — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:21:58 GMT

Our awesome marketing intern ( Connor Lanman ) released a kickass video today (and it is getting some

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RE: How to "break in" to gaming & entertainment

Pankow — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:40:02 GMT

@Jared...Congrats, and welcome to Microsoft! Thanks for the tips!

@Vinny...well, I went to school to be a teacher and ended up working in HR for Xbox. So, it's possible, just a bit harder. Likely, you'll have to work your way up the ladder with someone else before getting your video game break. I spent 2 years recruiting for a tribal casino and 2 years recruiting at a bank before I fell into my Xbox job. Good luck!

@DW...Honestly, experience is more highly valued than a Masters. Higher education will improve your knowledge base, but it still won't give you the experience. If you decide to go for a Masters, I would focus on something more technical. Game designers are a dime a dozen. Unless you're really really good, I recommend breaking in another way.

@Lorn...The Xbox team has an Operations group. Someone needs to keep the LIVE servers up and running. Good luck!

RE: Interns win top prize for Windows Phone 7 app

Tinni — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:24:29 GMT

Congrats all winner. I'm eagerly waiting to use headliners apps on my windows phone.

RE: How to prepare questions for your interview

Posao Hr — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:37:50 GMT

Good interview will get you a job, so it's really important to know what you'll say when the questions come.

RE: The Top Three hottest new majors for a career in technology

Vincent Granville — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:30:54 GMT

If this article represents Microsoft's viewpoint, it could be biased. Microsoft is very much into A/B testing with Bing.com, but this all A/B testing stuff is more than 100 years old, and Microsoft came late in the game, well after Google and Yahoo.

If the economy is not improving, one area that could see strong job growth is fraud / crime / terrorism early detection and in real time, which requires automated data mining tools, expert statistical knowledge and ad-hoc analyses to identify constantly evolving fraud patterns and train models. Also, resource optimization (e.g. water management, doing more, feeding more people with less money, fewer resources): here inventory management, forecasting, actuarial science are good analytic skills to have.

RE: Interns win top prize for Windows Phone 7 app

DustynBryce — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:09:25 GMT

Awesome, its nice to see how the search is so uniform on the platform. I'll have to snag this as soon as I get my hands on a device.

RE: The Top Three hottest new majors for a career in technology

Hot-hot hot college majors for technology — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:59:40 GMT

I majored in business administration and graduated from the Entrepreneur Program. So we shant pretend

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RE: The Top Three hottest new majors for a career in technology

Corinne — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:25:59 GMT

While these may be popular, they aren't necessarily absolute for non-dev/test roles. I came in with a very unrelated background in Biomedical Engineering and am finding that I really enjoy working as a Program Manager at Microsoft! I see just the right mix of engineering/computer science, business knowledge, relationship management, etc.

RE: How to prepare questions for your interview

AKASH — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:04:31 GMT

YEAH IT'S REALLY GOOD .