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A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab (2006)

https://davidweiss.blogspot.com/2006/04/tour-of-microsofts-mac-lab.html
117•ingve•6h ago

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FirmwareBurner•4h ago
*and printer lab
donatj•4h ago
It hurts my heart so badly that when you read a post of such vintage the outward facing links are almost certainly all broken.

We've lost so much.

LorenDB•4h ago
And that's why archive.org exists.
foobarbecue•4h ago
Yep, but it's missing a lot (feels like about half missing) and it's a fragile single point of failure that's constantly under threat (political, legal, economic, cyberattack).
BobbyTables2•2h ago
Wondered about this one too.

Even the Library of Alexandria was destroyed at some point…

xandrius•4h ago
Don't be sad, here it is in all its glory: https://web.archive.org/web/20250109120355/http://davidweiss...

And make sure to consider donating to the Internet Archive if this made your heart slightly less achy today :)

Archonical•21m ago
The OP was referring to outbound URLs. Those are still broken.
hidd•4h ago
(2006)
hedgehog•3h ago
If I recall correctly this was ground level of building 115, now renamed Studio G. Someone from Mac BU cruising the halls on a Razor scooter while wearing a propellor beanie once gave me a peek in that lab.
BobbyTables2•2h ago
Don’t get me wrong, love the writeup… Ancient history now but perhaps less so in 2006.

But if I took pictures of my employers’ lab and posted on my personal blog, they might not be thrilled… And if I were to seek permission, they’d want it on the company website instead…

zerkten•2h ago
Blogging on personal blogs was somewhat condoned back then. There was a period when MS was really encouraging personal blogs and then they pulled back from this to focus on blogs hosted on their platform.

Channel 9 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_9_(Microsoft)) was taking off and they were doing video all around their campus. It was a real look behind the curtain and probably an element of the foundation for their adoption of open source.

graublau•1h ago
what harm was caused?
sugarpimpdorsey•1h ago
Like that time someone gave a tour of Twitter HQ on TikTok and it inadvertently exposed that they and their coworkers basically did nothing all day but drink cappuccinos and eat free company food.

You could tell these guys were genuinely thrilled they got free sugary drinks in 2006. That was considered a serious perk back then.

iwontberude•1h ago
lol they made a reference to Sanford and Son (“the big one”)
nickswalker•44m ago
The author is likely referring to the potential for a Cascadia megaquake: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...
DarkSource•31m ago
I really feel for whoever had to test all those printers

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A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab (2006)

https://davidweiss.blogspot.com/2006/04/tour-of-microsofts-mac-lab.html
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