‘Softie in Question: Laura Foy

Job Title: Video Production Goddess (aka Senior Technical Evangelist).

Laura, it’s hard to miss you online here at Microsoft and beyond. I’ve seen you in everything from an interview with Craig Mundie about NUI to a Justin Timberlake spoof music video about Xbox. Tell me about your role here.
I host and produce stories about what’s going on with Microsoft and technology. I have a weekly show called Ping!, I share breaking technology news, I talk about Windows Phone 7, make kitsch horror movies, music videos, travel all over the place… you name it. There are so many things going on at Microsoft and so many places to create content that I never have a shortage of ideas or material.

I recently saw the award-winning documentary We Live in Public about internet pioneers and I noticed you in a couple of scenes. Tell me about how you got in on the ground floor of online media.
I had just graduated from NYU. The late 90s .com bubble was in full swing and a friend told me about a job at Pseudo.com. The job was just cataloging tapes and basic stuff like that, but I was bartending at the time, so I was like “sure, I’ll give it a try.”

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