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Video: Microsoft evolution of PCs

Mar 25, 2011, 3:30 AM | Updated: Mar 28, 2011, 3:46 pm

Are you old enough to remember the floppy disk?

Take a moment to enjoy the evolution of computers as seen through Jeff Hay’s 19-year history with a company called Contoso, that sure looks a lot like Microsoft.

Jeff is aging pretty well. He’s a fictional employee, by the way. The footage of the modern company appears to me to be Microsoft’s City Center Plaza building in Bellevue.

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