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!

Thanks for helping the Mac on the business side to perform as well as it does.

Birthday Gift for MacBU [Mac Mojo] Celebrating 10 years of the only light spot in a dark place (tags: funny microsoft apple osx) PLANET M&M'S Create your own M&M image (tags: m&m funny flash)...

Congrats Guys

Looking forward to trying out the UB version of Office (fingers crossed) later this year.

As always, Microsoft's icons are heavily pixelated, compared to Apple's smooth ones.

But seriously, guys; thanks for ten years of great Mac software. Here's to another ten!

Thanks guys, happy anniversary.

Times Square at Night. I'm a sucker for city photography. And cities at night with lots of neon -- even better.

UUUHHHGGG-rrrr! It helps if you're familiar with Star Wars, but even if not, it's worth a chuckle.

Birthday Gift for MacBU. How the Mac guys

Thank u guys for ur greeeeeeat softwears on mac and also those niiiiiiiiice icons

Have you guys took it down?

The beak of '1' could use one more sticky notes. That's number 1337 for ya!

Woof!

With Excel as their favourite graphics app after 10 years of Mac development, you might hope what the coming 10 years will bring us in Office 2008.

I don't know what's more impressive -- the planning and execution of this, or the wonderful documentation you've provided for the rest of us curious onlookers and/or future post-it note artists.

Do I see a new fad emerging?  This "inphonic post-it note jaguar" was in my inbox as the Yahoo pick of the day just a couple of weeks ago: http://picks.yahoo.com/picks/i/20070119.html

I think the use of 1336 stickies is wonderfully understated. 1337 would've been far too predictable and obvious. This says, "We could've gone there... but we don't need to."

Well played, team MacBU. Well played.

Total rock stars.

I truly fail to see why we should be getting so excited over Microsoft, a company that has dropped every single Macintosh product they have **EVER** made for the Mac except for Microsoft Office -- and they are withdrawing Microsoft Office support rapidly on a daily basis. For example, VBA was the first thing to go in the upcoming Microsoft Office 2008.  The next thing to go will be the Office suite altogether. Folks, let us not forget that Microsoft always has been and always will be the enemy. They are not our friends!

Hi !

How can I be on the beta list of Office 2008 ?

Txs a lot and best regards

I thank you for your good job. Long life to MacBU.

Ghislain, switched to Mac at 4 years ago.

Top marks to you all for this inspired bit of low-tech creativity!

Oh, and for all your hard work with that software stuff as well.

MacUser Magazine's Technical Editor salutes you.

Moof!

Good Effort Guys!

Always glad to see a fun prank like that to keep the environment cool!

Keep it up, I cant wait for 2008.

TC.

The only time I've been to Microsoft in Redmond was for a Distance Learning standards meeting.  I fully expected to see evidence of the Evil Empire, and suffered cognitive dissonance when the hallways were full of 'think different' and Macs.  Our meeting was in the MacBU building - not what I expected on my visit to Microsoft.

   dave

Happy Anniversary.

Can't wait for Office '08!!!!!

...You guys are truly 'insanely great'!

I really can't wait for Office '08... well, especially Excel -- I'm sure it will be one of the finest Mac apps EVER! (sorry, but I'm just addicted to Excel... on a Mac -- more than ever)

Kudos!

Agreed a nice gift, but if you'd spent all that time making sure that Office 2008 had VBA included you might not all be out of a job in a year or so...

You guys are the best.  Congrats on 10 years, and for all our sakes, keep up the great work!

Doens't anyone else notice that the X for Excel is a pixel off?

I have used and loved Word on the Mac since 1985.  I even loved version 6.  I got my first Mac in August 1984, when all there was for the Mac was the first, RAM-based version of MacWrite, which allowed you to write a document that was all of three pages long.  Then came Word 1.0, which was disc-based, and the doc-size limit was a megabyte.

I'll keep buying Office for the Mac as long as they keep putting it out.

And the icon thing was brilliant.  Which guy is Joe and which one is Mel?  Jessica, I figured out on my own.

Happy Birthday MacBU...I (we) are with you every step of the way..

Tyler

PD: Jessica, Mel, Joe

(The tag on the second to last photo sorta gives it away)

It was really a great challenge, and you stepped up to the plate and smacked it out of the park. The Mariners need folks like you!

"Doens't anyone else notice that the X for Excel is a pixel off?'

Yes, we noticed that right away and fixed it. Moving them up one pixel is surprisingly easy, I'll leave it up to you to figure out why and how.

I'm dieing to see more posts.  I click on your Blog daily and cry myself to sleep on those lone nights with no updated Mac Mojo entries

http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/03/05/mac.users.test.subjects/

We will remember our fallen of 97....

In my own personal protest of today's major story , this entry was created on my Windows Mobile phone

Hey Joe... I was at a UK Microsoft Mac love-in, yesterday. First slide up was the one at the top of the page. Nice work!

As previously announced, and as indicated by the lower frequency in blogcasting here, everyone at MacBU

The MacBU is excited to announce a new user-generated community site, Art of Office . Art of Office is

We love bringing you the official blog of the Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) so you can read and discuss

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