A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab 177
I'm Don Giovanni writes "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."
Sure, we have a mac lab... (Score:-1, Funny)
I feel a disturbance in the force... (Score:5, Funny)
How ironic... (Score:5, Funny)
Well OF COURSE they have a Mac lab! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How ironic... (Score:4, Funny)
Does that mean they're responsible for 0.05% of the market share?
Door label (Score:5, Funny)
A Tour of Microsoft's Fucking Kill You Lab (Score:4, Funny)
Fucking Kill You Lab director Thaul Purrott tells me that this is "the future of Windows innovation" and not surprisingly, customer support just as an airborne chair caster nearly decapitates him.
Free Soda... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Does Apple have a Windows lab? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Undercover marketing? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bug Testing (Score:5, Funny)
The testers investigate the failures, log any bugs and then move on to their other duties as testers.
It doesn't say anyone actaully fixes the bugs they log, does it?
Linux Lab (Score:5, Funny)
Cool, huh?
Re:Well OF COURSE they have a Mac lab! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Does Apple have a Windows lab? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Usually a bit more sensible (Score:2, Funny)
Finally! Now we know... (Score:2, Funny)
"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."
Re:Does Apple have a Windows lab? (Score:2, Funny)
Now that iTunes and other apps run in Windows, does Apple have a Windows lab?
Judging by the quality of Quicktime on Windows, apparently not.
Re:The last guy who did this got fired. (Score:4, Funny)
Amost always??? Details, please...
Re:Microsoft's MBU: A perfect example... (Score:2, Funny)