Thursday, April 23, 2009

Proximity doesn’t confer talent…

Today’s an interesting day. I’ve over on Microsoft Campus in Building 99 to help review Tech Ed dry runs for the IT Manager track. 99 is a new building, with a floor-to-ceiling atrium and large stairwell. It’s the new home of Microsoft Research, which is one of the largest (in terms of $$) pure research divisions of any company in the world. That may be, but today I didn’t see any human powered helicopters or levitating Segways or the like (jet belts are SO passé).

What I did see is the former president of India giving a speech and having a Q&A session, via webcast, on an enormous movie-theater-sized screen and projector in the atrium. So interesting here on Microsoft campus, with little Priuii shuttle cars flitting about providing transportation between the little city here of buildings.

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