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Turning the tables: Channel 9 interviews yours truly

By Mary Jo Foley | March 13, 2008, 7:46am PDT

Charles Torres of Microsoft Channel 9 fame recently turned the tables on me when I was in Redmond and interviewed me (instead of vice versa).

Don “Chief Modeling Officer” Box got a chance to ask me some questions as part of the inquisition, as well. We chatted about everything from blogging vs. reporting, to my soon-to-be-released Microsoft 2.0 book.

Here’s the Channel 9 “All About Mary Jo” (a play on “All About Microsoft”) clip that resulted.

All in all, it wasn’t too painful to be the one grilled instead of the one grilling. But it definitely made me happy that I’m usually the one asking the questions instead of answering them.

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Mary Jo has covered the tech industry for more than 25 years for a variety of publications and Web sites, and is a frequent guest on radio, TV and podcasts, speaking about all things Microsoft-related. She is the author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in the post-Gates era (John Wiley & Sons, 2008).

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Is there a non-Silverlight version of this available? Merci.

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internot 14th Mar 2008

props, of course, to Mary Jo for her work, but this piece of work is just so annoying to watch!

attn: camera operator
Ever hear of a 2-shot?

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Roger_Jennings 13th Mar 2008

Enjoyed the interview.

--rj

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keith@... 14th Mar 2008

Observations:

1. Don Box may be a legend, but he's weird in my opinion.
2. The camera work was horrible.
3. Mary Jo is a hottie!

That is all. happy

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CustomComputers 14th Mar 2008

OH MARY JO!

After all these years of writing,AND what you have said about Microsoft.

Tell Us; How does it feel to be a movie star?

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