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Heading On Up to Redmond

If you're one of Microsoft's largest customers or partners, you've probably been wined and dined on its campus, probably at the Executive Briefing Center. If you head up there again, you may find fancier digs. After a two-year makeover, that center is now 20,000 square feet larger.

So if you haven't been invited there yet, now might be a good time to drop a few hints.

Posted by Doug Barney on January 21, 2008


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