Microsoft
The technology company where the author worked before entering government.
OrganisationSources & confidence: Qualified confidence
Checked 2 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Company founding year 1975.
- Microsoft — Why is Microsoft’s birthday April 4?
Company founding year 1975.
- Liam Wilkinson — Hello, World
The author’s February 2026 account of his career, project contributions and site.
- Wikidata entity identity and cross-references
The entity identity and its recorded authority identifiers; not an independent authority-register validation.
What this check doesn’t establish
- The author’s employment is self-reported rather than confirmed by Microsoft.
- VIAF/ROR values were cross-checked against the Wikidata entity; the external authority registry itself was not independently inspected.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
Named in the introductory post as where the author learned to build and ship at scale in the cloud, between a start in cybersecurity and the move into government.
In the essays
- Hello, World
Read the essay
People
Record history
Catalogue source: knowledge/organisations/microsoft.md
Generated by claude-code/claude-opus-5 on 2026-07-25