Microsoft's Silicon Valley Campus is ten years old

I noticed an article on Internet News today: Microsoft's other campus celebrates year ten. Hey, that's my campus!

The article focuses largely on the folks here who work for Microsoft Research, but it skips over plenty of other interesting groups on campus. There's my part of the Macintosh Business Unit here, where we develop PowerPoint, Outlook, and Document Connection for Mac. The Windows PowerPoint team is in the same building that we're in (which means that we talk with them quite frequently). Hotmail and some other Windows Live properties are developed here. The MS TV guys are here, as well as some Xbox folks. I'm quite sure I'm missing some groups, so hopefully no-one will shout at me for my bad memory. :)

In doing some poking around, I found the official Microsoft press release for the SVC 10-year anniversary, as well as a guest post from ex-MacBU PM Dennis Cheung to the Microsoft jobs blog posted in 2004: We're not just in Redmond anymore. (I love that Dennis's post includes the number of air miles from SJC to SEA. It's 678 from SFO to SEA, according to my usual flight on United.) I even found an old article on CNet announcing the plan for us to open here: Microsoft to open Silicon Valley campus.

Happy ten years, SVC!