[xaranke]

Right, but that's because Microsoft hasn't seen the kind of explosive growth that Amazon has so it's easier to plan. Also they've been around a lot longer.

[seanmcdirmid]

Microsoft has seen explosive growth beyond amazon, its Redmond campus keeps growing and is a small suburban city by now. But they did it (a) over a decade or two and (b) without much other competition in the area.

[xaranke]

You seem to be contradicting yourself: how is growth over 2 decades "explosive"?

[seanmcdirmid]

Really, even a town growing to that size over two decades would be considered explosive. And it hasn’t stopped, at all.

The difference between 1998 and 2008 alone is incredible.