Inside the Microsoft Archives

Scott visits the Microsoft Archives for BUILD 2022. Join us and register FREE for BUILD for even more behind the scenes footage!
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[@shanselman]

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[@emily-y1e8w]

what place is this?

[@jonjohns8145]

Oh my God! I want a Show of JUST Scot and Amy walking and talking about various items in the Archive. I was near tears with the nostalgia watching this. Great times in my life were spent working with these tools.

[@gordonbeeming]

I love the archives... been 3 times already, it's insane, Amy (the archivist) has so much knowledge of the MS history, it's insane

[@thejobbercrowley7212]

There could be a whole series set in the archive and I would watch it.

[@jonjohns8145]

HELL YES!!

[@psharpnet]

Yo Netflix! Did you hear that? 😁

[@tehklevster]

I'm in my mid-fifties, yes still working as a developer, if I lived in WA, USA then this would be my ideal early retirement job. I didn't know Microsoft had such a thing. Thanks Scott.

[@Vakir]

A big ass table huh? I’m glad you remembered that Scott, brought back so many memories. Haha

[@vivekkaushik9508]

Microsoft should open a MS World in their Metaverse where people can visit these places.

[@andyb-com]

XBOX Dev Kit, that brings back memories. We had a room of the kits and all the developers just said "is that them? they are just pcs". If you turn right as you go into the archive and go to the far end, there is a tall box and inside is an original Scott Hanselman

[@jameshoiby]

Wow. So many of those boxes have graced my shelves in the past. Serious nostalgia!

[@anderlabaka3287]

It's just a joy to watch someone enjoy that much with things like these!!

[@coderider3022]

This stuff is important and glad its preserved

[@TCP0011708]

What a great tour. Thanks Scott. Please can you do a video on all the old dos games like Wolfenstein, Doom and supaplex. Maybe how to get them running on W10 ?

[@DrStephenT]

I've seen parts of this at Ignite on year! It was awesome! I never knew they had all this!!! Awesome place!!

[@bugsub]

Scott- thanks for this! When you were in that vault, you didn't happen to see my money in there did ya? I think I owned most of what I saw at one point or another. What a privilege it has been to have watched it all evolve over the years. I can vividly remember those first versions of Windows that shipped with a mouse in the box! Thanks for all of your content. Really enjoy watching all that you do.

[@greypiewood]

"That was before F-locks destroyed humanity and prevented you from using function keys." - amen to that!

[@villymagero]

This is awesome...I love Archival work

[@frischifrisch6860]

Really cool collection, Thanks for the insight!

[@johnmcnulty1022]

Scott, if there is something that we have in our own storage that we would like to offer/donate to the archive, is there a way to offer it forward to Amy's Team for consideration?

[@hugovale6360]

Does Microsoft have a Museum? Cause if not they definitely should. I would love to visit and go through this stuff to revisit my childhood and teenage years. That Sidewinder wheel was quite a moment.

[@CodeRedCoder]

This is just awesome!

[@TheVideoGameVault]

Lol love the shirt. I think I started with DOS 5.x and built-in qbasic. Been doing dev on ms stack(s) ever since. Good stuff Scott!

[@DarenC]

I still have a set of Windows 3.1 installation diskettes somewhere. MS-DOS 3 and 5 floppies too I think. I'm like that archive in miniature. 🤣 Like Scott, I feel I could spend hours in there very happily

[@shetuamin]

I miss win98 os. That was my first experience of pc

[@WarpigtheKiller]

4:54 There is an Apple PC in the Background

[@atornblad]

I wonder if some of the old collaborations are in there somewhere. Like Microsoft's BASIC for the Amiga - is there an Amiga 1000 sitting on a shelf? Could we find some MSX computers? I could spend an entire day there!

[@Bartelsmedia]

More!

[@michaelwplde]

4:10 Careful now those are the shelves where the put stuff to dissappear them LOL ...

[@AddyKapur]

This is such a cool video!!!

[@StefanHanrath]

is this where all the old channel9 videos went?

[@takeshiasahi5494]

Thats a time capsule 💕

[@augustmarshall2961]

Awesome!

[@RG-ot1vy]

...LIT!

[@FunWithBits]

While these PCs are incredibly slow to today’s standards, we would not be here today without them.

[@MajedDalain]

This makes me feel that I am getting old 😆

[@vivekkaushik9508]

Hmmm Nostaligia.

[@TheStevenWhiting]

"Not open to the general public" is the mistake. If you have multiple copies of some of the software and even hardware, then maybe create a new building on the lot that is the museum part. Charge a small fee and let people come and enjoy the history of computing.

[@foadsf]

Imagine if Microsoft open sourced all of their deprecated software.

[@chebanana4686]

Besides the joy and nostalgia. A billion dollar company relies on voluntary work to maintain there archive assets? Cute.

[@zinojoe]

0:36 Did this man really say "as an Argonian" ? 😂😂

[@shanselman]

Oregonian 😂

[@zinojoe]

@@shanselman LOL, that....makes much more sense

[@thargy]

I’m only 46 - why you make me feel so old 🥹

[@Streeterz]

Like a kid in the candy store. Your enthusiasm is contagious!

[@pdebruin]

Watch the full video in Microsoft Build After Hours Day 1 mybuild.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/b558d260-efae-4da5-ae31-aaca34ca2aae

[@IssaFram]

I've been doing software development since middle school and now over a decade of professional work. All Microsoft stack. Seeing this is amazing.

[@markmcd]

THE SIDEWINDER!

[@seths1997]

Thanks Scott, this is really cool. I miss all that box packaging. Wish I kept all the ones I had from Windows 95/98/NT4, encarta, cinemania...I still have an unopened copy of dos 6.22 and the box and books for vb6. Also kept manuals for gwbasic and dos 3.3

[@neyandeva4]

I need someone to look at me the way like Scott looked at em shelves. Post more videos Scott. It's always inspiring and refreshing.

[@TheStevenWhiting]

The same woman that did the tour several years ago with someone else. Need a longer tour. EDIT- It was Microsoft Europe.

[@iantrembirth6918]

I would love to visit there! The number of things I've thrown away and wish I'd kept - MS Dos 4.0, MS Works (with one of the best software tutorials ever written), games like Ultima V (with all the trinkets) and Space Rogue. My first day working as a support tech in a college here in the UK I was given the complete set of manuals for Office 4.0, I think it was 12 separate books. Ah yesterday!

[@davidgallivan5615]

Thank you so much for sharing the archive at Microsoft with us. I started coding in 1980 and actually worked for a company that built 8 and 5 1/4 floppy drives. Everything you showed brought back so many memories. Please keep providing the community with great content.

07:38 Is he Bill Gates on left? o.O

[@manonthedollar]

Aw man, artifacts from my life when it was fun!

[@sabitkondakc9147]

Amazing to see the archive, thanks a million to Mr. Punchcard :)

[@ChuckCostarella]

Where's the Microsoft Barney?

[@GlauciaLemos]

For more videos like this. Please do more! (Showing behind the scenes in the Microsoft Building and departments)

[@Quicken2k]

I remember those disks. I'm old .

[@Corrado49]

Where are the Tandy’s?

[@TheOnlyDominik]

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@erenpeksen6888]

4:37 tear of joy

[@davep9565]

Very cool!

[@jonathanholzmann]

Good that you feel comfortable in a room with 50 degrees Scott, because I have a feeling, if Amy had her way, she would have kept you as a specimen in that room.. Very dangerous..😀

[@Rizon1985]

If you let LGR in there, you'll end up with a 10 hour video documenting everything to share with the world.

[@Tech_Alchemy]

Awesome episode Scott, would live to see more like this!

[@hareshkainth8259]

Wow! Amazing. I love to collect old Microsoft software. But this archive is amazing.

[@MasonWiseman]

Man, I had the same experience with the "big ass table" as well. Saw it in the lobby of a Chicago hotel during a trip. Never saw one again either haha.

[@NextProgrammer]

Thanks Scott for the tour! Imagine years from now a mobile phone will be the same fate with the server

[@gtangari]

I visited the archive 3 weeks ago and it has been a fantastic experience. Amy is a master expert and really friendly!

[@DKMarik]

Amazing! I only wish you'd also show the legendary Zune

[@ianwalker2258]

Awesome!

[@firesoul453]

Wish there was more love this.

[@mattcargile]

Good stuff, Scott! Love it.

[@gmailaaaa]

I wish I could send my Lumia 720 and a 950 to you guys. It might fit here somewhere.