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Scoble's Office! A world exclusive!

nice to see our most famous blogger has an inside office, too... you shoulda negotiated that one!

Ah, the beginning of the Microsoft 30.... Hey Paunch, where's Jon?

I like that poster!

Thanks for buying my books

Nice veal fattening pen.

Good to see natural light is waiting on a servcie pack.

Only one monitor? n00b!

Thank's a lot for the photos, I think are uniques on iNet

Hmm... nice office. Think i'll do mine just like this.
Which monitor and portable are you are using?

Looks that U R very work minded

Scoble and the post cards readers of his blog have sent in.

Hah, I think that's my postcard, top left with the red stripe. Ah, beautiful Stamford.

infamous microsoft sceurity, turn badge around

turn your badge around smarty

Nanoo Nanoo!!

nice, texas longhorns all the way buddy.

Some people have hawt chicks on their walls, or maybe even the occasional movie poster.

You've got a .NET architecture poster on your wall.

Bummer, dude

Now I shall unleash upon you the TWIN-HORNED DEMON OF DEATH

Microsoft Building 1. This and a couple other original buildings still stand, but within the last few years Microsoft has been demolishing older buildings to replace them with better built larger structures. You can't tell from this photo, but inside these original buildings it is a total maze trying to find your way around, plus the original cluster of buildings all look the same inside and out, so you can even get lost in the wrong building looking for your desk.

Note to Microsoft Employees - if you know what's done in each of these buildings please leave a caption by clicking on the photos.
It's interesting to many of us and it's nice to learn that Microsoft's software is actually built by humans and not mysterious evil robots or armies of trained monkeys.

So is there really a building 7 or did Douglas Coupland make that up for Microserfs?

Building 7 is like the spoon.

The reason why an MS building is like a maze inside is because each office was designed to have at least a "window" that looks to the outside. Try to erect a building where each one of its offices has a window and you'll see it will end up being a maze.

Hotels are buildings where each room has a window. Or buildings with an open courtyard in the middle.

Interesting, every employee has a cube with a window.
Nice

This is where the Microsoft Commerce Server team resides. There may be more teams I believe.

When I started in May of '87, there were 4 buildings, I was in #3 (All Applications), Systems was in #2, #1 had admin, recruiting, ??, #4 had the library, legal, exec offices, International I think. Lake Bill sat between all the buildings
#5 and #6 got built shortly after that and the infamous #7 never did happen. It was a very nice area with big tall trees, picnic areas, etc. (probably still is)

Building 1 includes Business Process & Integration people who have recently been folded into the new Connected Systems division. People here work on BizTalk, WWF, Commerce Server, RFID, etc.

This huge building is still being built. It's far more modern than any building I've seen on campus. Lots of concret and steel, whereas many of the newer Microsoft buildings on this campus use a lot of brick and stone.

This is where the monkeys and evil robots work.

Actually Office will be relocating there so buildings 16-18 are moving there, and I think Visio may finally go to the main campus from their downtown offices.

holy crap i have to do a model of this for class.ha. yeah right.

This is building 39 and the other poster is right it is, I believe, exclusively, MS Office folks (great cafeteria BTW

Actually that is building 36

you would think with the Billions of dollars microsoft had they'd be able to install indoor bathrooms. But no... here are the Jonny on the Spots for everyone in Building 36 (yes this is building 36). Boys on the left, girls on the right.

You can see the mountains in the distance beyond this building. The one next to it is where I worked on Internet Explorer 5 as a summer intern in 1998. These were the "new" buildings at the time. At that time this building was Windows CE. As teams grow and shrink they get moved all of campus, so I don't know what's done in this building today.

This whole area (5 of these buildings, all identical, in a circle) houses the MSN team exclusively now.

The previous comment is not correct. This is a view to the East of building 32 in the "Pebble Beach" complex. This building currently houses AutoPC and TabletPC.

AutoPC moved out, and I used their cage in the garage for a prank.... you may have seen the video if you're on the inside.....

Off in the distance, the man-rape song drifts from the banjo, effectivley clearing the area of people who do not want to be man-raped.

nice view

Looks more like the RedWest campus to me.

This is another newer building - an on-campus conference center. This building replaced what was a smaller conference center and the company library (geekiest library ever), which moved somewhere else on campus.

There was also a "pine tree growing area" where this building now stands. The campus is so big and buildings are added so often that they used space just to grow trees to later be placed elsewhere on the campus.

Conference Center

Yeah, I read that too. Thanks for the info Dr. Obvious.

The library is actually slightly off-campus, up 40th across the 520 on your left.

This building replaced the space that had the company store and Microsoft Museum. Both of those have been moved off campus to a non-descript building. There's a photo of that building somewhere in this collection too.

Building 34 is the proud home of the Exchange team.

Exchange - the big dogs of backoffice :-)

Also Corporate Strategy, and You Know Who, reside here. A giant MSN kiosk in the lobby.

Ah yes, Corporate Strategy... i.e. the easily identifiable men and women in nice suits. They stand out quite a bit from the rest of us.

If you zoom in you can see that this is the Executive Briefing Center, or EBC. This is where Bill entertains other CEOs, world leaders, and anybody else they need to impress. I think this building also hosts the Microsoft Home of the Future, a full house decked out with gadgets that may be in our homes in the near future.

looks like a post office

Also houses the Office of the Future - which is pretty cool if you ever get a chance to take the tour.

Ha ha! This is such a wicked building!!! Yay im so gonna buy it! When I marry Bill. Lol Joke. Like I could afford to marry him!
Love ya!

There are trails all over the Microsoft campus as this map shows, however this map is several years out of date. Even the building I was in five years ago isn't on this map. I'm not sure why they haven't updated these markers, maybe for historic reasons.
The small lake between buildings 1, 2, 3, and 4 is called Lake Bill. There used to be roosters that lived there which would let programmers coding all night know when it was morning.

The Microsoft Obese Internet-User concentration camp. Opening in 2008

"Use of trail is at participant's own risk"?? C'mon how legal can these guys get?

NEWS ALERT: Alien crop circles discovered ~ Bill Gates beemed up!

im not going to move my fat ass from my office chair

Like a college campus, there are several soccer, softball, and even cricket fields.

Prior to the Office 2003 launch, they had a giant electronic sign counting down the days until its release.

Cool. They play Cricket there. ;)

What they do when any Window glass is broken.

They don't care if any window glass is broken; they make "Windows" :)

If a Window(s) is broken call the hardware people, we deal with software. ha ha ha....

What if the window glass is smart enough to catch the ball?

Pretty Nice, I like that.

If the window is broken it will hang :).

6 and out if you hit the window!

If they break windows, they will be moved to the testing department, so they can break more windows.

If any window got broke will be re installed as windows with service pack or upgradation new window ::::Vista!!

Flying Saucer terrorizes visitors to the Microsoft Campus

Well, at least they're not wasting time on those stupid "Easter Eggs"...