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  Plugged in to Microsoft's biggest rival
Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: Seattle Times | Posted By: Chris Hedlund

Shortly after he joined Microsoft 12 years ago in Washington, D.C., Martin Taylor was tapped to help an executive from Redmond make a sales presentation. The silver-tongued son of a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist was ready to show his stuff. "I was, what, 23, so I was like, 'Steve, Joe, I don't care, some bigwig from Redmond. I just want to go do this presentation,' " he said. The executive was a vice president named Steve Ballmer, and the presentation was a disaster.

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