Microsoft reveals secret farm

According to the Seattle Times, the Vole is planning to build more than 1.4 million square feet of office space near the Washington township of Quincy, pop. 5,044 people.

Since the only thing the little place has are a few fruit farms, the move caught everyone by surprise, particularly as the Vole was playing its cards close to its furry underbelly.

If it were a government organisation, the setting was so remote that people would logically assume that it was something to do with aliens but, in the case of the Vole, no one could be sure.

The Times quotes a spokesVole as saying that the building is to hold a huge data storage operation that takes advantage of the cheap hydro-electric power in the area and the local fibre-optic connections to the world wide wibble.

The big idea is that Vole will start to offer a huge digital back-up operation for punter's PCs.

Brian Arbogast, vice president of the Windows Live communication platform, said the Vole wants give customers the choice of what they put up in the cloud and what they keep on their PC. µ

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