A tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab

[BWF89]

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."
http://davidweiss.blogspot.com/2006/04/tour-of-microsofts-mac-lab.html
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/06/04/20/1936238.shtml

[23meg]

I wonder what their *nix labs look like.

[magomago]

They have nix labs? What for?

[tribaal]

They have nix labs? What for?

They need some place stable and secure to store sensitive data ;)

Nah really, it's pretty logical that such a large company has labs to test out concurrent's stuff... You know, the old saying that goes "Know your enemy" ;)

That's also why we should keep windows machines handy, just to check on what's going on on the other side of the "fence" :)

- trib'

[Sushi]

They have nix labs? What for?

They do have a large Linux-installation that they use to evaluate Linux and check it's strengths and weaknesses.

[rejser]

They do have a large Linux-installation that they use to evaluate Linux and check it's strengths and weaknesses.

And rip-of some ideas :)

[Sushi]

And rip-of some ideas :)

Propably. And Linux-folks do the same.

[3rdalbum]

And rip-of some ideas :)

Exactly. Microsoft have taken the Looking Glass distro, modified all the programs to use remotely-accessable sockets for communication, altered the prelink settings so programs get cached onto flash drives, and released a beta version of the result. It's called "Windows Vista". :D

[curuxz]

Propably. And Linux-folks do the same.

How can we, does that not require orignal ideas to steal?