These are great guys. If you're not going to start your own thing, go hack for them because this is going to be a big deal.
So, how did the recruiting go?
It went really well. The people who attend are the best part of startup school, for sure.
Yes, really goes to show the type of turn the tech industry is taking. In order to continue to improve existing functions (email, searches, etc) more and more cutting edge analysis techniques must be developed.
C#? Ouch.
They need to talk to Outlook, so it's probably the best they can do. The better .NET languages like F# don't seem to be mature enough yet for production use.