Harsh J

Microsoft must’ve just found out that the amount of people driving their cars all the way to Redmond, in order to file complaints on their new OS - Windows Vista for was growing too huge to handle .. and park.

So, in order to show their customer that they really really care about their concerns, they’ve started digging out a huge space to provide parking to 5000 such people, underground (Yeah, so they can trap them inside).

Here’s more on the super massive trapdoor which Microsoft’s constructing:

Microsoft is digging for a solution to the parking crunch on its growing Redmond campus.

The software giant is excavating a giant pit for an underground parking garage with the capacity for some 5,000 vehicles. It will cover the equivalent of six downtown city blocks and go four stories deep. The underground garage, on the west side of Highway 520 near the Northeast 40th Street exit, is scheduled to be completed by mid-2008. In 2006, the company announced a three-year plan to expand the campus by about one-third, or 3.1 million square feet, at a cost of roughly $1.3 billion.

Microsoft Garage

Plus, a gloat extract from the same:

The new garage “will go a long way to helping out with that crunch that we feel,” Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos said. “You’re going to see a net gain here of quite a few thousand spaces.”

“When this is done, I think people will look to that area as the center of campus,” Gellos said. “It’s being designed and built that way,” with open space, a plaza, and other architectural and artistic touches planned to make the area pedestrian friendly.

Lou Gellos

Psst .. There’s an even more sinister part in this. Inside information tells me that they will definitely have an ‘emergency trapdoor system in case of .. emergency‘ to trap down the parked people inside and deploy Microsoft Surface units to brainwash them into buying it. A nice formula of selling more on people’s terrified moods.