The Garage never should have existed: Why Microsoft’s grassroots innovation lab worked for so long

Posters from Microsoft Garage science fairs and hack events, many funded by the Microsoft groups that hosted them, as seen in 2016. (Photo courtesy of Quinn Hawkins) I saw the news via GeekWire that after 17 years, the Microsoft Garage, which I co-founded, is coming to an end. In software, 17 years is a very, very long time.