Tech Info : Aging Microsoft lures young tech idealists - Sci/Tech - DNA

The young interns, some of the nation's best
and brightest in technology, business and
design, had plenty of enthusiastic words to
describe their summer employer.
Fun. Cool. Special. A giant start-up.
Revolutionizing the world. Facebook, perhaps?
Or Twitter? Or Google?
Try Microsoft Corp: the company once derided
as the "death star" of the technology business
and lately thought of not so much as dangerous,
but merely irrelevant, bureaucratic and dull.
"Microsoft feels cool again," said 22-year-old
Gbenga Badipe, an electrical engineering student
at Rice University, one of 1,500 interns
spending 12 weeks at the company's leafy
campus this summer. "Microsoft products
touch almost every area of technology, and
everything they do is starting to work
together."


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