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I don't know the exact numbers, but when I left Microsoft a couple of years ago, the following product divisions were among those based in the 6 buildings of th
by hyperrail 10y ago
I don't know the exact numbers, but when I left Microsoft a couple of years ago, the following product divisions were among those based in the 6 buildings of the Mountain View SVC (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Microsoft+SVC+Building+1/@37.4129045,-122.0787811,16z/data=!4m8!1m2!2m1!1smicrosoft+silicon+valley+campus!3m4!1s0x0:0xc1bc0e6d308e6c78!8m2!3d37.4115677!4d-122.0713422 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Microsoft+SVC+Building+1/@... ):
- Outlook.com (formerly Hotmail)
- Parts of Office for Mac OS X and iOS
- Xbox hardware and accessories (Xbox software was in Redmond)
- Windows Phone online services
- Microsoft Research Silicon Valley (but that was closed in the first round of layoffs several months after I left)
SVC was originally built for Hotmail and WebTV (remember that?).
Microsoft also had separate offices in Sunnyvale (in the big cluster of relative skyscrapers just south of Moffett Field), which I believe were mostly folks who came from Skype and/or Nokia.
- bkjelden 10y agoPowerPoint, for all platforms (not just OS X and iOS) is developed at that office too. PowerPoint has actually been in the bay area since it was acquired. The Web TV stuff was sold to Ericcson a few years ago, and they moved to an office in San Jose at the end of 2015. I think the Sunnyvale office was mostly teams working on Bing, as well as handful of smaller acquisitions.
- hkmurakami 10y agoAfaik (parts of) the Skype team is here. There's a constellation of offices from various acquisitions as well.