A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab

I'm Don Giovanni writes "David Weiss of Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) gives a virtual tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab at Redmond, reportedly one of the largest Mac labs outside of Apple (includes 150 Mac minis!)." Great pictures. From the article: "The first area in the Mac Lab is what we call the Sandbox. This is where we keep all significant hardware configurations Apple has released that run our products. We'll use the Plasma display to, watch DVDs and play games, uh er, I mean, do important training presentations. ;-) It's actually very useful because everyone can be in front of a computer and still see the main screen and follow along. Often other groups at Microsoft (the games group, hardware drivers group and even the Windows media group) will come and schedule time in the Mac Lab to test their software on the different hardware configurations."

Comments

Re:Does Apple have a Windows lab?

[GmAz]

Not a lab, but each employee just brings his home PC to work for Apple to use and takes it back home each day. Wonder what percentage of Apple employees use wintel machines at home.

Re:Does Apple have a Windows lab?

[astrosmash]

Yeah, but it's just a bunch of unpaid interns sharing a couple of beige-box PCs and an iPod.