Geeky Information Technology (IT) Places to Visit – Microsoft Headquarters
This series of posts reflects my inner geek. It chronicles a number of information technology (IT) related “tourist attractions” that I would love to visit before I die. Some of them are simply far away locations that I dream of making it to and others will be locations that I would need some assistance obtaining access to. Please feel free to add your own via the comments block below.
Today’s destination is the mother ship for all PC-Heads: The Microsoft Company Headquarters! It is in Redmond, Washington! It is a sprawling campus that is also one of the top employers in the SEATAC Area (For Seattle – Tacoma). It is accessed by landing at the SEATAC Airport and driving over the SEATAC bridge.
Wikipedia does great justice to this topic. It reports that:
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKEX: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices.[8] Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its most profitable products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software.
Obviously, Microsoft is the 50 Trillion Pound Gorilla of the modern software business. Their Windows Operating System and Office Suite are synonymous with Enterprise Business. You could not escape their products if you tried as an Information Technology Professional. I am sure that, no matter what niche of the IT business you work in, you have a secret desire to run wild over the Microsoft campus, peer into their inner workings, and talk to their top people!
Please give the the Wikipedia site a read. It really does describe Microsoft very well.
So where do you want to visit that is related to your interest in The Information Age and Information Technology? Do you want to see where people worked, like this article, or where objects are? Together we could make a terrific list. Please add below.
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for November 19, 2009 ©Scott Coughlin
Photo credit: www.pcpro.co.uk and Wikipedia
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