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Google engineers are famously encouraged to spend 20% of their time working on side projects. The free time is a morale booster for Google employees, ensuring that they get time to “work on what they’re really passionate about,” according to the Google job page. Google’s 20% projects have yielded some amazing results, such as Orkut, Adsense for Content, and most famously Gmail.

众所周知，我们鼓励Google工程师将20％的时间用于辅助项目。 根据Google的工作页面 ，空闲时间对于Google员工而言是一种鼓舞士气的方式，可以确保他们有时间“致力于自己真正的工作” 。 Google的20％的项目已经取得了令人惊讶的成果，例如Orkut，Adsense for Content和最著名的Gmail 。

Microsoft’s Office Labs takes a page from the Google playbook by allowing anyone who works at Microsoft to submit ideas to the Labs team for prototyping. “[Office Labs] is a proving ground for ideas that come from regular employees and interns who work anywhere in Microsoft,” says the company of the research department which produces product prototypes for web apps, desktop apps, and software + services hybrids.

微软的Office Labs通过允许在Microsoft工作的任何人将想法提交给Labs团队进行原型设计，从而从Google剧本中提取了一页。 研究部门的公司表示：“ [Office Labs]是在Microsoft各地工作的普通员工和实习生提出想法的试验场，”该公司为Web应用程序，台式机应用程序和软件+服务混合平台生产产品原型。

Yesterday Microsoft launched the first of those community projects, a downloadable application and web page launcher called Speed Launch that works with Windows Vista and Windows XP.

昨天，Microsoft启动了这些社区项目中的第一个，这是一个可下载的应用程序和网页启动器，称为Speed Launch ，可与Windows Vista和Windows XP一起使用。

The software itself isn’t very remarkable at this early stage — the Enso Launcher from Humanized, for example, puts it to shame in my opinion — but that’s not what makes it interesting. What makes Speed Launch interesting is who is behind it. The idea for the launcher application originated with Matt Dyor, according to Todd Bishop of the Seattle Post Intelligencer. Dyor is unique among Microsoft employees who create software for the company in that he’s not a developer — he’s a patent lawyer.

该软件本身在早期还不是很出色-例如，Humanized的Enso Launcher使我感到羞耻-但这并不是使它有趣的原因。 让Speed Launch变得有趣的是背后的人。 据西雅图邮报《情报员》(Seattle Post Intelligencer)的托德·毕晓普(Todd Bishop)称，启动器应用程序的构想起源于马特·迪尔(Matt Dyor)。 Dyor在为公司创建软件的Microsoft员工中与众不同，因为他不是开发人员，而是专利律师。

Along with David Craig, who works in Microsoft’s IT department, the pair developed Speed Launch in their spare time over the past year before bringing it to the Office Labs team for further refinement. Also unique for software development at a large company? Dyor and Craig have never met — one works in Redmond, Washington, while the other works in Texas. All development was done remotely.

与Microsoft IT部门的工作人员David Craig一起，他们在过去一年的业余时间开发了Speed Launch，然后将其引入Office Labs团队进行进一步改进。 大型公司的软件开发还独一无二吗？ 代尔和克雷格从未谋面-一位在华盛顿的雷德蒙德工作，而另一位在得克萨斯州工作。 所有开发都是远程完成的。

Unlike Google, Microsoft doesn’t give most employees the option to work on side projects while on company time — hence why Speed Launch was developed by Dyor and Craig in their spare time over lunch and after work. But the encouragement of such community projects by non-engineer employees through the Office Labs team is step in that direction.

与Google不同的是，Microsoft并没有为大多数员工提供在公司时间内从事副项目的选择，因此，为什么Dyor和Craig在午餐和下班后的业余时间开发了Speed Launch。 但是，非工程师员工通过Office Labs团队鼓励此类社区项目就是朝这个方向迈出的一步。

翻译自: https://www.sitepoint.com/microsoft-community-projects-a-page-from-googles-playbook/

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