The following is a conversation with Kevin Scott, the CTO of Microsoft.

Before that, he was the senior vice president of engineering and operations at LinkedIn,

and before that, he oversaw mobile ads engineering at Google.

He also has a podcast called Behind the Tech with Kevin Scott, which I'm a fan of.

This was a fun and wide-ranging conversation that covered many aspects of computing.

It happened over a month ago before the announcement of Microsoft's investment opening

eye that a few people have asked me about.

I'm sure there'll be one or two people in the future that'll talk with me about the

impact of that investment.

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of the podcast on Patreon.

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Your support means a lot, and inspires me to keep this series going.

And now here's my conversation with Kevin Scott.

You've described yourself as a kid in a candy store at Microsoft because of all the interesting

projects that are going on.

Can you try to do the impossible task and give a brief whirlwind view of all the spaces

that Microsoft is working in?

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