Microsoft Production Studios (commonly known inside Microsoft simply as Microsoft Studios) is a large broadcast studio nestled in the trees on Microsoft's main Redmond Campus.¹ Here's a video hosted by Luke Burbank, local radio personality who is a frequent host for Microsoft internal videos.I myself was interviewed at Microsoft Studios for a short video which (I am told) was used as an interstitial by the live streaming team at the Microsoft Build 2023 conference to promote my talk at that conference (co-hosted by Clint Rutkas).The Microsoft Studios building is very unimpressive from the outside, but once you get inside, you find yourself in a high-tech broadcast studio. After going through hair and make-up, I was taken for my interview to a large mostly-empty black room with a giant LED wall backdrop and lots of television cameras backed by what I'm sure is extremely expensive electronic audio and video equipment.²I'm told that the Microsoft Studios building was being designed at the time of the infamous Windows 98 on-stage USB blue screen³ They modified their design to include a room next to the broadcast room to stage any computer equipment that would be used during a live broadcast. The equipment would be set up and tested before being turned over to the program hosts. They don't want a repeat of the disaster of experiencing a blue screen error during a live broadcast. So far, it has worked.¹ Not to be confused with the Channel 9 Studio. I've recorded there, too!² The instructions for dressing for the interview noted, "Your feet may be visible in some camera angles, so wear appropriate footwear." "Aha," I thought. "They said nothing about pants!"⁴³ Some time ago, I wrote a technical explanation of what went wrong. TL;DR: For the live demo, they bought a scanner from a local electronics store and never tested it before going on stage. The scanner had a bug.⁴ I wore pants.