Microspotting: Inside the Microsoft Archives

jones_supa writes to point out a video tour in which long-time company archivist Amy Stevenson takes us behind the scenes of the Microsoft Archives, a collection of artifacts that preserve the company's history and culture. "There, you'll find decades worth of Microsoft software, advertisements, documentation, memorabilia and...skulls? You'll just have to watch to understand. Some of the scariest items include a life-like Bill Gates doll (wearing a jogging suit), sent by a Russian doll artist, and a human-sized Clippy costume."

Re:Deep in the bowels ...

[Joining Yet Again]

People who do good things look outward for inspiration.

People who do nothing much look only in the mirror.

Although Apple's done a bit of looking outward (though it'd never admit it), Microsoft, Google, &co. look mostly in the mirror.

Re:Ew.

[jones_supa]

Waah waah. I submitted the article exactly to balance out the FOSS-heavy stream on news on Slashdot. I like and use OSS too but it's healthy to see all the sides of the world and what's happening in IT world in general. News for nerds, stuff that matters -- isn't that the baseline?