Inside Microsoft Photos

It's been an exhausting but really nice weekend. It's coming to an end now that it's Monday 1 am. I'm dead tired and sleepy right now and will have to wake up again in 3 hours to drive a friend to the airport for his flight to Egypt, so I'll most probably skip on the narration this time and maybe tell you all about it sometime later.

For now I thought I'd give you some photos that I'd promised long ago and didn't deliver (till now that is). Photos of how Microsoft looks like. Of course not all of Microsoft, most of these photos were taken in building 35 (which is where my office happens to be, along with the rest of people working on SQL Server), and the building 34 cafeteria which is the closest cafeteria to my office.

So there goes the photos, I'll try to throw in some explanation too.



The building has many glass wall, and this is how it looks like outside one of them



One of the many many alleys inside any given building at Microsoft, this specific one is in my building, building 35.



Now you know why I still get lost inside my building



One side of the kitchen, there is one of these on every floor in every building, yes all drinks are free, and there is even popcorn too :)



A sort of a lounge area, you can just relax here or use your laptop and the corporate wifi inside all buildings to work.



That's what is on the table in the previous photo, a glass chess.



Foosball tables, lots of those lying around in every building, and they're pretty popular too, I'd seen some very intense games and I must admit, I never thought there could be that much skill involved in that game.



And of course, how could I work for a company that doesn't have a ping pong table ;) (an ITWorx joke if you will)



And that's the building on the outside, well a part of it.



Lots of parts around the campus are just like this one, thankfully :)



A section of the nearest cafeteria, yes a section, to get an idea of how big it is I have to tell you that the maximum occupancy for this one is 900 people. It's one of many cafeterias scattered around the campus. Lovely food too.


And never say that MS people are not fun. Those 2 photos are just samples of what people hang on the doors and windows of their offices :)