Microsoft Museum
Monday, June 27, 2005
After Gnomedex I visted friends at Microsoft, and took a tour of the Microsoft Museum. I visit my friends at Microsoft about once every year or so, but the museum has always been closed for renovations (got to keep it up to date, right?). Finally it was open while I was there and I these are the the photos.
If you're interested in photos of the rest of the Microsoft campus, check out my other album, Microsoft Campus Tour, which I took on a previous visit.
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Well this isn't from the museum - this is a blurry photo of me and Larry Hyrb, aka Major Nelson (
http://www.MajorNelson.com). He's the director of programming for XBOX Live, and he's showing me the original working XBOX.
Dylan Greene, posted 7/6/2005 5:20:00 PM
Just like the commercial - and I still don't get the point. MS doesn't even sell the software that does this.
Dylan Greene, posted 7/6/2005 5:21:00 PM
Do you see me in this photo of the original Microsoft employees? Just kidding, I was born the same year Microsoft was formed (1975). That's Bill Gates on the bottom left.
Dylan Greene, posted 7/6/2005 5:22:00 PM
The Museum had an impressive server room, and an even more impressive collection of XBOX games. I wonder what they were for.
Dylan Greene, posted 7/6/2005 5:23:00 PM
I worked at Microsoft from 1997-1998. About 27,000 employees back then (I was one of 900 interns).
Dylan Greene, posted 7/6/2005 5:24:00 PM
And today - about 60,000 employees! Wow, that's a lot of recruiting.
Dylan Greene, posted 7/6/2005 5:24:00 PM
One of Microsoft's first products - BASIC for the ALTAIR. It came on that paper tape.
Dylan Greene, posted 7/6/2005 5:25:00 PM
Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen, from college, before they dropped out. They look like half the people from my computer science classes.
Dylan Greene, posted 7/6/2005 5:26:00 PM
An interesting letter from Bill Gates about software piracy published sometime in the '70's. Not much has changed.
Dylan Greene, posted 7/6/2005 5:27:00 PM
Top: The Byte Magazine from the year and month I was born (Oct 1975). Bottom: Great cover: "Is this next?" with a concept photo of a "computer store".
Dylan Greene, posted 7/6/2005 5:28:00 PM
Microsoft's smart moves start here: Selling their software to Original Equipment Manufactures instead of just one company.
Dylan Greene, posted 7/6/2005 5:29:00 PM
In case you're ever on Geek Jeopardy, this symbol was called the Bibbel. These items were from a campaign to "Save the Bibbel" when Microsoft decided to modernize their logo.
Dylan Greene, posted 7/6/2005 5:31:00 PM
If only we bought their stock back then....
Dylan Greene, posted 7/6/2005 5:32:00 PM
Photos from the Windows 2000 launch in San Francisco. Not pictured: Me, I was there.
Dylan Greene, posted 7/6/2005 5:37:00 PM
