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Microsoft Winds Down Employee Innovation Program The Garage

Microsoft is ending The Garage, its 17-year-old companywide program that ran the Global Hackathon and employee maker spaces, as announced in an internal FAQ, with some spaces restricted to employees as early as Friday.

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Oct 23, 11:53 AM geekwire.com The Garage never should have existed: Why Microsoft’s grassroots innovation lab worked for so long
Oct 22, 10:02 AM techmeme.com Microsoft says it is closing The Garage, which gave employees around the world space and tools for side projects and ran the company's Global Hackathon (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Oct 22, 9:00 AM theverge.com Microsoft shuts down its beloved maker space
Oct 20, 10:53 AM geekwire.com Microsoft shuts the door on The Garage, the central program behind its hackathon and maker spaces