MSFT Reaches Out To Hackers: 'Do Epic $#!+'

hessian writes "Microsoft isn't exactly known for its underground hacker culture, but a recent effort to give its employees more slack is generating some wild experiments. Last summer, Microsoft completed a redesign of one of its original buildings on campus — Building 4, where Bill Gates' office used to be — into a laid-back workshop where staff can tinker with things. It's open to anyone, anytime, and it's got everything from a hardware workshop to an actual working garage door. If it doesn't sound to you like something Microsoft would normally do , the Garage's motto will really shock you: 'Do epic s--t.'"

Comments

uh oh

[Trepidity]

If Microsoft doesn't bleep out the 'shit', but Slashdot does (in two different ways?), does this mean MSFT is "hipper" than /. now?

Re:uh oh

[kwark]

Thanks for the link, it thought it was perl code before your hint.

Re:uh oh

[Anne Thwacks]

Its educational - they not only learn there ARE bad words, they get to figure out what they are!

Re:uh oh

[K. S. Kyosuke]

If Microsoft doesn't bleep out the 'shit', but Slashdot does (in two different ways?), does this mean MSFT is "hipper" than /. now?

Indeed, they are; I've even heard that they are actually seriously considering a change of name from "Microsoft" to "Micros#%t" as part of becoming even hipper.

Re:uh oh

[davester666]

The printed motto might be 'Do epic shit', but what they really mean is "Please do epic shit with Windows"

Re:uh oh

[UnoriginalBoringNick]

...And then embed them in their linux code contributions.

Re:uh oh

[isorox]

If Microsoft doesn't bleep out the 'shit'

Or vagina

They've got real hackers

[Anonymous Coward]

Angelina "Acid Burn" Jolie and Matthew "Cereal Killer" Lillard will be stopping by.

Re:They forgot the second part

[Anne Thwacks]

Then again, the reviews suggest Windows 8 ACTUALLY IS epic $#!+, and probably will bankrupt the company as a direct result of this situation.

"make mobile payments with just their bodies" ...?

[drkim]

I liked the line in the original article:

one Microsoft Office developer is currently working in the Garage on a tool allowing people to make mobile payments with just their bodies.

I think this already goes on all over the world.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/housewife-charged-in-sexforsecurity-scam,1773/

s--t

[guttentag]

s--t opens up all kinds of possible clues as to what they're really doing in there (courtesy of the RegEx Dictionary):

"Do Epic Salt" could be religious in nature, if only they had the light to go with it.
"Do Epic Scat" could be, well, crappy.
"Do Epic Scot" could be a hint that Sean Connery will play Ballmer in an upcoming movie about Steve Jobs
"Do Epic Seat" could be a hint that they're working on a special chair to offset the major pain in the ass NotMetro is expected to be
"Do Epic Sect" could be a skunkworks project to recruit fanboys
"Do Epic Shat" could be a retrospective on the history of Windows... uh, narrated by William Shatner
"Do Epic Skit" could be a code for the rehearsal to train people to look excited at their store openings, and hide the fact that hired DJs are using iTunes
"Do Epic Slit" could be... nahhh...
"Do Epic Slut" or "Do Epic Smut" could be an indication that MSFT wants to enter the lucrative smut scene and cut off Heffner's air supply
"Do Epic Snot" or "Do Epic Spit" No. Just no.

Personally, I think what they're really saying is they plan to "do shit" to the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

Re:Will M$'$ next product be a

[rhook]

It's policy to never imply ownership in the event of a dildo.