Microsoft shuts down its beloved maker space
Summary
Microsoft is ending its centralized Garage program, which provided popular maker spaces for employee innovation. Workers used these collaborative areas to develop experimental software and hardware projects, as well as participate in annual hackathon events.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at a hackathon event in 2016. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is closing down The Garage, a set of popular maker spaces where employees worked on experimental projects and collaborated on surprising new apps and hardware during the company's annual hackathon events. "We're winding down The Garage program as a centralized function," says Microsoft in an internal…
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