FORTUNE Magazine – Usama M. Fayyad, Ph.D.

I Remember Microsoft Once computing’s red-hot center, Microsoft now has a tough time retaining its best and brightest employees. Here, some who left reflect on what they learned–and why they find life on the outside so much more alluring

Early in 1997, a 31-year-old Microsoft executive named David Risher told his boss that he was quitting to join an intriguing Seattle startup called