{"id":145,"date":"2005-09-14T00:52:06","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T23:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/14\/marc-mcdonald-microsofts-first-employee\/"},"modified":"2006-08-09T23:11:49","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T22:11:49","slug":"marc-mcdonald-microsofts-first-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/14\/marc-mcdonald-microsofts-first-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc McDonald &#8211; Microsoft&#8217;s First Employee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just found out that Microsoft&#8217;s Channel 9 Website as an interesting interview with Marc McDonald, Microsoft&#8217;s first employee!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Marc McDonald is Microsoft&#8217;s first employee. Hired back in 1976. We recently caught up with him and talk about the old days at Microsoft as well as what he&#8217;s doing on the Windows Vista team (he&#8217;s working on defect prevention).<\/p>\n<p>Funny story. He left Microsoft in 1984 because Microsoft had gotten &#8220;too big.&#8221; Microsoft&#8217;s size at that point? A few hundred employees. (He came back after Microsoft bought the company he worked for).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/showpost.aspx?postid=111590\">Check it out now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just found out that Microsoft&#8217;s Channel 9 Website as an interesting interview with Marc McDonald, Microsoft&#8217;s first employee! Marc McDonald is Microsoft&#8217;s first employee. Hired back in 1976. We recently caught up with him and talk about the old days at Microsoft as well as what he&#8217;s doing on the Windows Vista team (he&#8217;s working on defect prevention). Funny<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/14\/marc-mcdonald-microsofts-first-employee\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Marc McDonald &#8211; Microsoft&#8217;s First Employee&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}