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

Posted by timothy on from the and-then-shut-the-garage-door dept.

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.'"

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  1. They forgot the second part by bersl2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "...as long as it doesn't threaten our bottom line."

  2. "$#!+" ? "s--t" ? by Solozerk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Really ? the word is censored both times in TFS and even the image itself is blurred in TFA.
    Are we really so prude and puritan as a culture that we can't even bring ourselves to write "SHIT" ?

    This goes beyond political correctness - it's frankly ridiculous.

  3. what !@#$% is the point??? by sribe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem is not that MSFT employees don't have good ideas; the problem is that management kills them (the ideas that is).