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Microspotting: Inside the Microsoft Archives
jones_supa writes to point out a video tour in which long-time company archivist Amy Stevenson takes us behind the scenes of the Microsoft Archives, a collection of artifacts that preserve the company's history and culture. "There, you'll find decades worth of Microsoft software, advertisements, documentation, memorabilia and...skulls? You'll just have to watch to understand. Some of the scariest items include a life-like Bill Gates doll (wearing a jogging suit), sent by a Russian doll artist, and a human-sized Clippy costume."
I understand all that you said but I have to point out just one thing.
a human sized clippy costume? that is the most terrifying thing I have ever heard of. that ranks higher than clown, advertisers, lawyers and politicians.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
The video exhaustively presents all successful HP Superdome Windows deployments.
. . . when they sat in the bubble-wrapped chairs and the interviewer asked about the chairs' significance, I seriously assumed the archivist was gonna say one of them was the one that Ballmer threw whilst ranting about Google.
I expected to see a sled at some point.
It looks like you're trying to move. Would you like help with that?
o Get me out of this suit!
o Just let me have some limb movement...
[] Don't show me this tip again.
If you gave me a choice between a printer and a giraffe with explosive diarrhoea, i'll get my ladder and my raincoat
Waah waah. I submitted the article exactly to balance out the FOSS-heavy stream on news on Slashdot. I like and use OSS too but it's healthy to see all the sides of the world and what's happening in IT world in general. News for nerds, stuff that matters -- isn't that the baseline?
I work at Microsoft. The Clippy costume is actually pretty funny in real life and gets busted out fairly regularly at office parties. (Employees can reserve stuff from the archives, sort of like a library.) People assume that everyone at Microsoft is totally bought in to whatever we ship. This might be true at the top of the ORG chart, but most of the employees see things the same as the rest of the world, and are just smart people who like working on world-class projects and trying to make things better.