I wrote this as a comment to Steve Clayton's posting, but I thought it deserved to have it's own posting. Anyone else think this would be a cool idea?
Hi Steve,
Thanks for picking this up. It would be cool if the UK could turn out something like this. Of course, speaking as someone who doesn't work for MS, what would be really cool is if it could somehow be opened up to partners and non MS employees too. Yeah, I know you'd have the "well who owns the code" problem, but it's nice to dream isn't it? :)
Just think, you could get some of the top devs from the UK to descend on an MS campus, make up small teams, and examine a concept (say social networking) and watch what sort of solutions were created.
Sounds like a party I'd like to got too!
Source: Steve Clayton: Geek In Disguise : Microsoft search mashup