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Subject: Re: New Chess Program by MS. My Findings with Top Brass MS Guys

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 15:07:19 11/16/01

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On November 16, 2001 at 15:28:53, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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?


When did you leave?  I could've sworn they passed the 100,000-employee mark some
time back.

BTW, Microsoft employees can reportedly buy any number of copies of WinXP Home
for $15 per copy and WinXP Pro for $30 per copy.



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