Fiona Fung

So joining the Visual Studio team, seeing, oh, wow, like here's an IDE with like debuggers and you can set breakpoints and do multi-threaded debugging.

Like that was also always mind blowing for me to think about the stepwise change.

So, yeah, like that was kind of the story going from IBM to Visual Studio.

And then what I really loved actually about Visual Studio is I was on the Visual Studio editor team.

So I use a VS editor to build the VS editor.

And that's where my whole love of dog feeding comes from.

Like I remembered I wanted to first and foremost create a delightful experience not only for myself, but for my teammates.

Because also if we go back in that time, if you remember, I mean, when did Twitter come out?

Like was it 2000?

It feels like it's been around my whole life.

But back then, like before social media, it was also harder for most engineers to hear fast customer feedback.

Like for sure there would be user research sessions or we would have customers visit us.

But you didn't get the rapid feedback that you do nowadays.

But back then I was so lucky because I was on VS. We ourselves gave each other so much rapid feedback because we were all heavy VS users on the team.

Yeah, when I worked on Visual Studio.

Back then, we also shipped software on CDs.

And that's why there were really hard deadlines because you had to make sure the software was ready for us to give to manufacturing to then put on the CDs for us to then put on the shelves.

And then so once that was another shift when we actually started to be able to ship software online.

And I think that's the interesting thing.

And I kind of mentioned this in my talk.