Microsoft is turning thirty years old and the promotional team of the gods have setup a great flash website. A timeline follows Microsoft over the last thirty years showing various innovations in the Windows product line, creation of new technologies, and other historical events.

The timeline features videos with various Microsoft employees speaking about what Microsoft does well, the history of the company, how the hiring process has happened at Microsoft, special sneak peaks at upcoming technologies and in-depth looks at what drove the beginnings of Microsoft.

The videos are great, the timeline has a great design to it and the site features a text section with predictions of where Microsoft will be at during the 50th birthday. Had the predictions for the future had the video that the text was from I would have found them more interesting but still a great read overall.

If you have an hour or so I'd suggest you sit-down and view the website, it is a flash presentation and is optimized for broadband connections.