Aha! We were wondering how Microsoft came up with the name "Zune," and now maybe we know? Could they have been buzzed on that beer in the fridge in Kirkland? That's where the Mobile and Imbedded Devices Experience (MEDX) design center is located, and where, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, engineers "have fun" by playing shoot-em-up with Nerf guns in their open offices, and yep, drink beer.
The employees in MEDX are ultra-mobile; none have land lines (using their cell phones, instead), everything rolls on the concrete floors, and even the monitors swivel. The beer, supposedly, is saved for Friday afternoons, when the teams play Xbox and ...
Xbox and beer? No wonder those operating expenses are so high.
In other "Microsoft is oh-so-wrong" news today, ValleyWag is reporting that a she-devil is advertising for Microsoft's VisualSourceSafe software! Yes, it's really just a badly-positioned repeating background, but boy, is that image eery.
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