Microspotting: Inside the Microsoft Archives 40
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:Ew. (Score:4, Insightful)
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" it's healthy to see all the sides of the world and what's happening in IT "
Isn't that how sexually transmitted diseases got started?
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that's why he eats toe-jam. it keeps the ladies away.
Deep in the bowels ... (Score:2)
And it is used to promoted company "culture"?
Call me when you find a giant company that doesn't do this.
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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.
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Only the second sentence carries an "only".
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I understand all that you said but I have to point out just one thing.
a human sized clippy costume? that is the most terrifying thing I have ever heard of. that ranks higher than clown, advertisers, lawyers and politicians.
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Microsoft Bob.
Re: Deep in the bowels ... (Score:3, Interesting)
I work at Microsoft. The Clippy costume is actually pretty funny in real life and gets busted out fairly regularly at office parties. (Employees can reserve stuff from the archives, sort of like a library.) People assume that everyone at Microsoft is totally bought in to whatever we ship. This might be true at the top of the ORG chart, but most of the employees see things the same as the rest of the world, and are just smart people who like working on world-class projects and trying to make things better.
Re:Superdome running Windows? (Score:5, Funny)
The video exhaustively presents all successful HP Superdome Windows deployments.
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The other funny thing about that video is that when trying to view it my browser told me I needed "silverlight" -- demonstrating that in fact silverlight was used for something other than Netflix Instant.
I had always thought it was hilarious that Microsoft spent all that money both developing and deploying Silverlight just to help the company of one of their board members. I guess one purpose of this video is to stave off shareholder lawsuits ("see! It wasn't only used by Netflix! Our archivist used it t
Too bad . . . (Score:5, Funny)
A human sized Clippy? (Score:1)
>and a human-sized Clippy costume
the horror! just imagine if one of those made it to the real world.
at least the archives is doing humanity something good.
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>and a human-sized Clippy costume
the horror! just imagine if one of those made it to the real world. at least the archives is doing humanity something good.
I noticed the other one was all tied up. Anyone think to ask why it was tied up? I suspect either to prevent it from getting loose, or some kind of weird ritual to prevent the MS employee within from being able to escape.
Rosebud (Score:5, Funny)
I expected to see a sled at some point.
The clippy suit... (Score:4, Funny)
o Get me out of this suit!
o Just let me have some limb movement...
[] Don't show me this tip again.
You'll just have to watch to understand. (Score:1)
No, I really don't. That's what the summaries are for.
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Why are there maggots in my geek soup? (Score:2)
WHY? OH WHY?
Interviewer (Score:1)
Silverlight Crashed - How Appropriate (Score:1)