在Microsoft倏忽之間就滿了一年；這一年間產業與經濟的變動都非常的大，回頭看看，這一年還真的做了不少事情。就算目前的工作還算穩定，我還是無可救藥的有著不確定感，不知道明年我會在哪裡啊。
下面是八月三日寄給同事的email。
“525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear. 525,600 minutes – how do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee. In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife. In 525,600 minutes – how do you measure a year in the life?”
In exact a year ago today, I left a company that yelled for its fame, turned my purple badge into blue, and started at NEO. It was a defying moment to me when I walked into the gate of Building 33; I had always been a firm believer of open source, yet here I was, bing being a full-time employee on Microsoft payroll, I would be ‘instituted’ to be a good corporate citizen.
I was ready to start working for Microsoft, but was I ready to embark my career at Microsoft? I have to admit, I was not sure.
How do you measure a year?
In programming languages I learned. I familiarized with two major languages, C# and objective-C in one year. I assumed that I would never write a single line of shell script at work; yet I probably wrote thousands just for the build lab along. In the past year, I had a privilege to work on various platform in different languages with greatest engineers I ever worked with.
How do you measure a year?
In bridges it was burnt. It was an eventful year. Less than a year and half ago, Microsoft tried to acquire my previous company but in vain. If the mountain won’t come to Mahomet, Mahomet will have to go to the mountain; I decided to join Microsoft after the merger fallen apart, given that I believe in the potential of this emerging market. About a week ago, Microsoft just announced a 10-year deal with my previous company pending regulatory approval. It took two companies more than a year to seal a deal, and this time, my dear colleagues, I am glad I am on your side.
How do you measure a year?
In trust we earned. I really did not know Microsoft before I joined. To me, it was a gigantic, masterful yet bureaucratic software design house that hated freeware. After I joined Microsoft, I started to sense that the business model Microsoft was running, and how Microsoft moves the industry forward by not just simply this wintel merely demeaning slogan. There were just so many vivid examples live abundantly throughout the company. It was the time I started to feel proud of my company; I am proud of what we have done in the past, I am proud of what we are doing, and I am darn proud of what we will be doing in the future.
As Microsoft legacy, please enjoy one pound M&M in front of my office for my first year, and hopefully a lot more for the years to come.
-Jerry