It turned out great, Joe!  Nice job

What an awesome birthday gift, Joe!

Congratulations, guys! Really nice looking - m4D 3xc3l p1x3l sk1llz !!1one!11!!

Very nice, Joe.

So I notice nobody tried coordinating with the SVC team down in Mountain View, CA (the pictures are of the MacBU building up in  Redmond, WA). I'd guess that your split personality (MacBU's) might sometimes leave one side or the other "out of the picture". Maybe someone down there will take up the challenge, and come up with their own 10-year memorial? (Nadyne, have a go!)

Wouldn't it be impressive to have something appear in both locales? Or is that something best left to software builds?

HA! Nicely done. Extra props on the dithering... that was a nice touch.

That was cool! Looked like some fun.

Good Job!

That's great, guys...

but I still don't understand what excel was needed for...wasn't it all feasible within photoshop?

bye!

Very Cool!

I'm normally bashing Microsoft over the agonies imposed on Windows users but you guys make up for it!

Happy Anniversary. And STAY DIFFERENT TOO!

Paul - Some of us down here in SVC are already in talks about what we can do around launch that might top this ...  

"That's great, guys...

but I still don't understand what excel was needed for...wasn't it all feasible within photoshop?"

Couple reasons:

1) Easier to print things out with a grid. Knowing how many pixels are in a column of row is handy when you're putting them up. I could have done a grid by hand in PS, but it wouldn't have been as flexible.

2) Counting. I could quickly get a count of how many notes we needed, even when the design changed.

3) Managing a larger document. Since there were a total of 10 pages, working with excel was easier to get nice printouts for everyone to reference.

I did all of the design in Photoshop ahead of time pixel-by-pixel zoomed in to 1000% with the pencil tool and eyedropped in B/W, the final step was just transfering it to Excel.

It appears that Nadyne is upping the ante for launch time, we're going to have to get creative up here.

Now if only they had more shades of stickies so you could do antialiasing...or better yet- transparent stickies!

*Sigh*

Trully thinking different. "Wow" that's all I can say ))

Great work, it looks really cool, maybe the icons could stay in place for longer time

Nice work.... coming from Redmond. hehe

Congrats on 10 years!

Congratulations. Long live the Macintosh Business Unit!

wow. that interview reads *exactly* like something out of douglas coupland. props to him, and to you alpha-nerds at the mac bu

Wonderful.  Were I not already a married woman, I'd propose to all three of you.

that is seriously cool

To those few good men and weman in Microsoft:

Great job!!

One more sticky and it would've been truly 1337!

Maybe you can top this for Office 2008 by doing the same things with icons that are, you know, actually attractive. No offense, honestly, and I admire your work on the stickynote project, but I've never liked these icons. The Office icons from the earlier Mac versions, and most of the Windows versions, have all looked better to me.

The Sistine Chapel ceiling has nothing on Microsoft's (Mac BU's) windows nicely done! Apple should have done something like this for the 10th anniversary of the return of Steve...

RESPECT! Congrats!

Happy birthday, guys! You make great software and you must promise to spin off Mac BU as an independent company the day Microsoft decides to make your lives hard, you are too good for them. The icons are way cool. Keep up the good work, we are all looking forward to Office 2008.

Nice work!

Dugg!

Wow!

You guys are totally cool,and HAppy Birthday...

tom

Happy Birthday MBU! Best of wishes for the next ten years!

Very cool!

Congrats!!

Happy Birthday MacBU! Well done! That's fantastic! Now I need to think of something as awesome for 10 years of MacBU in Ireland (after all, we've worked with you since the very beginning!) Or wait, for 2008 launch, let's all get together: Redmond, SVC, Japan, China and Ireland and do something truly different! With lasers! Seen from space! (Ok... come back eric, you're dreaming again! need more sleep! zzzzzz!)

Wow...Congratulations.

Wow...Congratulations.

My compliments and appreciation. It has been a good partnership for all and I hope it continues. We are all headed in the same direction and come from the same terrain. As a long time Mac user, i appreciate the efforts of the MBU and Microsoft.

Happy birthday y'all!  The design looks great and well executed.  Now get to work on VBS in the new Office.

auguries at only microsoft division that works well!

think differents!

Two questions that show my out-of-touch-ness:

1) What's SVC?

2) Any chance you could give me a tiny bit more detail as to how to turn a lo-res pixel drawing from Photoshop into an Excel spreadsheet? I'm afraid I'm not enough of a power-user of Excel to know where to even start!

Very cool. Happy Birthday!

heh heh.

if any of you had invested your time in the ansi scene instead of squandering it in warez during your youth, you could've just done that by eye.

Y que cumpláis muchos mas! Many more years to come people!

Congrats! Very cool work!

Keep up the great work and blow us all away with the next Mac version of Office.

Good Job! and Happy Birthday~ ^_^

This is one of the most brilliant ideas I ever seen in marketing.

Little budget, big ideas.

Stay thinking different !!!

M.B., Italy

so close! it really should have taken 1337 stickies, not 1336.

Thanks for the lesson idea (how to sell Excel to design students....)

That's so cool!

Everyone I've ever met with the Mac BU has been a real pleasure to work with and a powerful counter-example to the "MS is evil" meme.

Rock On.

Brilliantly creative!

And colour dithering as well?! THAT"s the Mac-style attention to detail.

I'll have to have hot cocoa and pizza in your honour!

John - SVC is our Silicon Valley Campus in Mountain View, CA.  Roughly half of us are here.

Joyeux anniversaire !!!!!!!!

Wasn't the SVC office originally known as "MS Bay"? I remember a Microsoft Internet Explorer ad in Macworld. It was placed sometime around the launch of Mac IE 2.0. The ad was more or less seeking Mac software developers to join MS. It was cool to see MS tout their use of (at that time) Codewarrior and other Mac technologies. I was in high school at the time (1995 or so), but I reality liked MacIE 2.1. It felt like this team was really trying to put out best-of-breed apps with corporate support. Damn, the web was so fun back then, and MacBU (or predecessor) made it even better for me. Thanks and congrats!

Windows sucks, but you guys did a good job with Office for Mac! Keep on coding and stay different!