I've only worked with Vic Gundotra for a little over a year now, but it's been an absolutely fantastic experience.  Today, he started a blog.

Mind you, this isn't some kind of blog where a corporate PR person makes up stuff and the exec pretends he said it.  Nope, Vic is the real deal.  He's grokked blogging right from the beginning. That's why there's people like Robert Scoble in his organization.  But until today, he's kept behind the scenes in the blog world.  This seems strange to me in a way, because Vic is kind of what I consider an "Evangelist's Evangelist."  This probably explains why he's the GM of the Evangelism group, but it goes beyond that.  His energy, enthusiasm, and outright passion is quite infectious.  But he's not simply a mouthpiece for Microsoft.  Vic believes in the power of software, and when he sees something that doesn't sit right with him (or more importantly, our customers), he can bark pretty loudly.

Ok, I've rambled too much.  Go read his first post, "In Defense Of The Company I Love" and hopefully you'll get a taste of what I'm talking about.