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

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 16:59:00 11/16/01

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On November 16, 2001 at 18:15:32, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On November 16, 2001 at 18:07:19, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>About 4 years ago.  I suspect your figures are international.  Of course, I
>really don't know how big MS is now.  When I started there (in 1989) there were
>about 8000 employees total.

I'm almost certain there are slightly less than 50K people working for MS in any
way, including internationally.

-Tom



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