Microsoft shuts down its beloved maker space

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella astatine a hackathon lawsuit successful 2016. | Image: Microsoft

Microsoft is closing down The Garage, a acceptable of fashionable shaper spaces wherever employees worked connected experimental projects and collaborated connected astonishing caller apps and hardware during the company's yearly hackathon events.

"We're winding down The Garage programme arsenic a centralized function," says Microsoft successful an interior FAQ to employees, seen by Notepad. "We volition proceed to research caller ways to assistance employees physique skills, collaborate crossed boundaries, and bring a hacker mindset to their work." GeekWire archetypal reported connected The Garage's closure.

The main Garage abstraction was located astatine Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, field and served arsenic the cardinal hub …

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