Amazing Timelapse Shows Original Microsoft HQ Being Built

I’m sure many of us our fascinated by these big companies, companies that manufacture and develop hardware as well as software that make our lives easier. Microsoft is one such company, a big behemoth with great big offices located all around the world. The company’s original and main headquarters however is in Redmond, Washington. This amazing timelapse video from 1985 shows the headquarters being built from the ground up.

The company initially build its HQ on 88 acres of land in forest found near Seattle, this was Redmond, a name now synonymous with Microsoft itself. Four star shaped buildings were built and it took seven months to get done with the construction. Today Microsoft’s campus at the same location spans over 500 acres, it has a staggering 125 buildings with thousands of employees working in them. Check out the video posted above and get a glimpse in to the construction of Microsoft’s first ever mega office. Need I remind you not to expect exceptional video quality, regardless of the fact that it was taken as well as posted by Microsoft itself? The clip is from 1985 after all.

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Watch This Timelapse of Microsoft’s Original HQ Being Built From Scratch

Check out this fantastic timelapse of Microsoft’s original headquarters being built. Back in 1985, when planners plotted out the rising company’s campus, Microsoft figured it’d need 88 acres of land in a forest near a one-stoplight suburb of Seattle called Redmond. The first office complex was a total of four star-shaped buildings you see in the video, built over the course of 7 months. Now, its 125-building campus sprawls over 500 acres—a city unto itself. [Microsoft] More »

PayPal arrives on Windows Phone devices running version 7.5 or higher

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eBay’s money-exchanging service has brought its payments platform to Windows Phone 7.5 handsets. PayPal’s new app lets you send and request cash and check your account details (hopefully while laughing maniacally at your own affluence). A “local” feature will also direct you toward vendors who accept the standard, just remember that NFC supporting handsets don’t get here for another few weeks.

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PayPal arrives on Windows Phone devices running version 7.5 or higher originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Kinect for Windows SDK to add new features, markets

DNP Kinect for Windows to add new features, markets

Kinect for Windows will arrive in style to China and other new markets starting October 8th, sporting a brand new SDK. The new developer kit will add features like color camera settings and extended depth data, as well as more tools and samples like a UI demo based on Kinect‘s so-called human interface guidelines. Chinese users won’t be the only ones waving hello for the first time this fall though, as Chile, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, and Poland have also been added to the list. All told, 38 countries will be able to tinker with the Kinect by the end of the year, and Microsoft envisions an era “where we’ll be able to interact intuitively and naturally” with our computers. Some of Redmond’s userbase may want it to start somewhere else with that quest.

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Kinect for Windows SDK to add new features, markets originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 05:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft intros new cloud app model for Office 365

Microsoft intros new cloud app model for Office 365

Following all the Office news from Redmond in the last 24 hours, Microsoft’s managed to take a quick breath before revealing some new dev tools and a cloud-based app model for its online iteration, Office 365. Apps made inside the model can be inserted directly into spreadsheets, as task panes, and even automatically activated when needed. Devs can also choose to wheel out their software to both the new Office Store or the existing extension system. So if you’re looking to upgrade that PC work suite, it might be worth taking a closer look at what’s going down at the source links below.

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Microsoft intros new cloud app model for Office 365 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Office Next blog is here to answer all your burning questions about the future of spreadsheets

Office Next blog is here to answer all your burning questions about the future of spreadsheets

Microsoft has this really great habit of publicly tracking the development of all its products. Windows 8 has been thoroughly documented over at the Building Windows 8 blog, and now Office will have its time to shine over at Office Next. The site will give the engineers and developers toiling away in Redmond an outlet to provide updates, discuss design decisions and offer peeks at the new features being baked in. It won’t be just a place full of bullet lists either, PJ Hough, the VP of program management for the Office Division, promised in his inaugural post that the data and feedback that informs their choices will also be shared — telling you not just what, but why. Is there anything new to share right now? Sadly no, but it probably won’t be long before the pages of Engadget are filled with the minutia of Office 15’s development.

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