The campus is scheduled to open in Mountain View in the summer of 1999 and
will include more than 500,000 square feet of office space in five buildings
for several Microsoft business groups currently dispersed among nine
locations in Northern California. These groups include the Macintosh
Internet Products Group, the Macintosh PowerPoint Product Unit, the Graphics
Products Unit, Hotmail, Web Essentials Development, WebTV and the Cupertino
Sales Office. The campus also will include a new Development Laboratory and
Developer Community Center, designed to assist independent software
developers in Silicon Valley. (more information)