Microsoft says it is closing The Garage, which gave employees around the world space and tools for side projects and ran the company's Global Hackathon
THE SO WHAT
Shutting down a 17-year-old hack and maker program suggests large incumbents are centralizing innovation around fewer, more strategic bets. If you rely on these ecosystems for early access or co-building, expect more top-down programs and fewer bottoms-up experiments to plug into.
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