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Great Training, Failed Project

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Microsoft for less than 1 year
June 15, 2008
Redmond, Washington
5.0
No CEO Opinion
Pros

At Microsoft, you’ll get the best on-the-job training in the world, while enjoying a casual, flexible work environment where you can choose everything.

Cons

Microsoft at Work was a short-lived effort promoted by Microsoft to tie together common business machinery, like fax machines and photocopiers, with a common communications protocol, allowing control and status information to be shared with computers running Microsoft Windows.

Similar efforts for other markets included Microsoft at Home and Cablesoft.

By any measure, these efforts were a dismal failure; it appears only a small number of devices using Microsoft at Work were ever released before disappearing without a trace.

Microsoft has since re-used the "at Work" term for a section of their web site describing various tips and tricks for using Windows in a business environment.

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