Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:28:53 11/16/01
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On November 16, 2001 at 15:24:47, Slater Wold wrote: >On November 16, 2001 at 15:17:12, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>Seems like everybody has friends or knows people who work for MS. I would like >>to know how the employees know stuff like whether or not a chess program is >>being researched. I'm an employee and I don't know this stuff. >> >>-Tom > >Well, this forum IS about computers. If it was about cars I am sure we'd all >have friends who work at Chevy, or Ford, etc. > >The whole story I heard was (from someone in marketing research) that the turn >out for the Kasparov vs the web game was huge. And that it might be >"..worthwhile to investigate further.." > >Not sure why you don't get the scoop first. Microsoft is basically the size of a large city. It was around 50,000 employees when I left. They have sites all over the place. Even in Redmond and Bellevue, the buildings are all over town. They have a main campus, but also several branches nearby, and additional branches in other places. I worked in Issaquah for a while (which was nice). One big site is quite a ways north (where they used to do manufacturing -- not sure what they do there now). Imagine a city with 50K people in it. Will you know everything that goes on? >What do you do there Tom?
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