New Microsoft Garage Site Invites Public To Test a Wide Range of App Ideas

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @04:30PM from the give-it-a-spin dept.

An anonymous reader writes Microsoft today launched a new section on its website: The Microsoft Garage is designed to give the public early access to various projects the company is testing right now. The team is kicking off with a total of 16 free consumer-facing apps, spanning Android, Android Wear, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows, and even the Xbox One. Microsoft Garage is still going to be everything it has been so far, but Microsoft has simply decided it's time for the public to get involved too: You can now test the wild projects the company's employees dream up.

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Unpaid labour? by innocent_white_lamb · 2014-10-22 16:51 · Score: 4, Insightful

Could someone tell me why we would want to do unpaid labour for Microsoft?
I'm quite prepared to test and help support Linux and open source projects. Microsoft? Not so much....

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1. Re:Unpaid labour? by Richard_at_work · 2014-10-22 19:15 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Is your selective memory ignoring all the sendmail and bind exploits that did the rounds in the 80s and 90s?