Microsoft secrets leaked!!

I've finally decided to break my long silence at Microsoft, which must have got people wondering about Microsoft's confidentiality policy, and share a couple of MS secrets with all you people out there.

First secret that not many of you know about is that MS is a great place to work in. Well... to be honest, I don't know if it is a great place to work in, but it sure is a great place to be in. Look at the always-busy Pool table, the Table Tennis table, and there's of course Foosball. My friend AKY is the reigning foosball champion, but then friend HS is not far behind, in fact he's already beaten AKY at a couple of games. Kudos, HS! Why, I just came back from 2 games of Foosball with him and managed to beat him 10-9 in the first one. Am I getting better or was AKY lost in thoughts of Emma Watson?

And then there are drinks, lots of them and all for free. For the last couple of days, they weren't so well stocked, which led to think that either:
1) The drinks contract must be over.
2) All interns out here must have had a lot of it and finally MS decided to stock drinks only after all interns leave.
Today however, drinks were back. And no, I didn't bother to research the reason, thats for guys at Microsoft Research India (MSRI), I went and had a drink. The drink refreshed me so much that I decided to use office time for blogging! And if anyone from my office just manages to stumble on my blog, I assure you that blogging takes only 5 minutes and most of my time is spent in projects.

Enough is enough, now let me tell you about my project. It is going great at present, but you never know when it might take a turn for the worse. For the first three weeks, the project was progressing quite fast, and then I turned to a Nokia-related API and starting from corrupt DLLs available for download from their side to bluetooth problems, everything came my way. Now of course, all these problems are over and everything is running smoothly again.

I have got a great project and a great team to work with and a great mentor as well, so I am having fun out it. Microsoft turns out to be a great place to work after all!

And if I haven't bored you enough, please go through my friend AG's blog - please excuse his Jedi weirdness - but apart from StarWars, I wholly agree with him. I would not be, at this stage, averse to spending a large part of my life at Microsoft.