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

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:12:06 11/16/01

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On November 16, 2001 at 19:59:00, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>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.

I just checked.  It's 43000.



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