Microsoft says goodbye to its past as demolition begins on original buildings ahead of big renovatio (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)

Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire
Microsoft says goodbye to its past as demolition begins on original buildings ahead of big renovatio – REDMOND, Wash. Matthew Whilden has been at Microsoft for 11 years. For about 30 minutes on Tuesday, the senior software engineer did his best to erase a 34-year-old piece of company history. Whilden was behind the controls of a construction excavator with a claw at the end as he …