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Virtual tour of Microsoft’s Mac unit

Buzz Bumble Total Posts: 401 Joined 2005-09-16	Posted: 21 April 2006 03:20 AM I haven’t even bothered to look, but this is from SlashDot.org ... A Tour of Microsoft’s Mac Lab David Weiss of Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) gives a virtual tour of Microsoft’s Mac Lab at Redmond, reportedly one of the largest Mac labs outside of Apple (includes 150 Mac minis!). Great pictures. From the article: “The first area in the Mac Lab is what we call the Sandbox. This is where we keep all significant hardware configurations Apple has released that run our products. We’ll use the Plasma display to, watch DVDs and play games, uh er, I mean, do important training presentations. It’s actually very useful because everyone can be in front of a computer and still see the main screen and follow along. Often other groups at Microsoft (the games group, hardware drivers group and even the Windows media group) will come and schedule time in the Mac Lab to test their software on the different hardware configurations.

BigMac Total Posts: 714 Joined 2005-08-15	Posted: 23 April 2006 09:59 PM That’s pretty impressive. Thanks for the link.

Bandulica Total Posts: 1 Joined 2007-08-27	Posted: 27 August 2007 09:13 AM That is, as far as I can see from the pictures, a kind of virtual tour of a real lab, but I would like to see a virtual tour of a virtual office, for as far as I have heard, they have issued one of these new products, as my virtual office here, but I would not leave my business into Microsoft’s hands, not yet.

dtenen Total Posts: 1 Joined 2008-05-25	Posted: 25 May 2008 12:04 PM This is more like a tour than a virtual tour. I have to say though it’s a very impressive lab. I wouldn’t mind Rack A, B and C :) Bandulica, Microsoft was one of our first clients back in the 70’s and they still are to date. The Servcorp Virtual Office has been around for over 30 years.