Now HERE is a GREAT idea! We should try it out.
I went to my first Friday morning brown bag breakfast training today. Turns out Microsoft has open-to-any-employee training every Friday morning. Free Krispy Kreme's and training on one of the company's products. Done by a vice president no less. You know, I've been part of several companies from seven people up to 115,000 employees, and none do anything like this.
Today I learned about Exchange's instant messenger. Every Microsoft employee now has instant messaging. We've come a long way from the ICQ days. Now we have encrypted IM and nice integration with Office. I also got an answer to why there's two separate IM clients (MSN and Exchange). MSN is going to rev once or twice a year and have lots of features aimed at consumers. Our enterprise customers don't want to see revs that often, and want different features. So, we have two separate teams who are trying to do similar things, albeit for different customers.
