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Microsoft builds UK Technology Centre

LONDON-Microsoft is rolling out its .Net technology with the help of a 10,000-sf new building at its Reading, Berkshire, site. It is Microsoft's fifth technology centre worldwide and the first in Europe

By Charlie Jacoby | Updated on April 02, 2003

LONDON-Part business space, part multiplex, part laboratory, Microsoft’s new10,000-sf technology centre, located at the UK Microsoft headquarters inReading, is designed to enable the rapid development of .Net solutions andshowcasing of Microsoft’s .Net technology. Interior fit-out specialistSpectrum Projects has completed the construction work at the first MicrosoftTechnology Centre in Europe, earning itself £1.5 million ($2.4million).

The fit-out involved modernising the existing reception area,constructing of a high-tech presentation suite, briefing areas, acommunications room, rooms for developing working prototypes of new systems.The specification included bespoke joinery, composite stone floors, latexseamless floors, glass walls, colour graphic manifestation, featureceilings, specialist lighting and fully interactive AV/IT systems.

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