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The Microsoft Garage is a Microsoft project lab that lets employees work on projects that often have no relation to their primary function within the company, and has been compared to Google's "20% time" initiative. The physical location of the Microsoft Garage is Bill Gates' former office on the Microsoft Campus, and employees from all divisions of Microsoft are free to take part in Microsoft Garage in their off-duty time. It contains a hardware workshop as well as an actual working garage door, the Microsoft Garage's official motto is "Do epic s--t". It was made public via the Microsoft Garage website in October 2014 as a part of opening up Microsoft's software development to the public. At the Microsoft Garage website, people are invited to try out the latest experimental applications developed by Microsoft. Projects developed in Microsoft Garage may or may not become a part of Microsoft's product offerings, depending on the success achieved in testing. == History == The Microsoft Garage originated as an offshoot of Office Labs in 2009. The central idea during the nascent period of the Microsoft Garage (2009-2014) was based on the fact that many tech companies were "started in a garage". As Microsoft is an old tech company, they needed a safe space where employees could "fail fast". After the 2014 worldwide hackathon, an event that drew over 10,000 Microsoft employees and interns, the Garage community expanded to a pathway to move small scale ideas forward. In October 2014 the Microsoft Garage was elevated to a division without physical location that enabled all Microsoft employees to participate. On October 22, 2014, The Garage launched the first set of lightweight, cross-platform apps created by incubation teams across the company. When the Microsoft Garage website was made public, there were 16 different applications available for various operating systems such as Google Android, Android Wear, iOS, Windows, Windows Phone and the Xbox One. In February 2015 Microsoft launched a new wave of Android and Windows Phone applications, one of them previously being a Nokia application. As of April 2015, the Microsoft Garage has completed over 10,000 projects by 3,000 employees. Microsoft divisions often shut down to relocate to the garage to test their new software, an example of this occurred when the MSN Mobile team tested its page layout on various smartphones every time the team made a small tweak to the web portal. They developed a tool to email mockups of screenshots of the phone every few minutes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Microsoft Garage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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