<p>CREATOR: Bhavesh Chauhan, Microsoft, software engineerCREATION: Forgotten Attachment DetectorINNOVATION PIPELINE: Microsoft's "Garage"</p><p>1. A CALL TO INNOVATION During a single week in late 2008, Bhavesh Chauhan, a software engineer in Hyderabad, India, received four emails with missing attachments. Wanting to end such embarrassments, he used free time to code an Outlook extension that scanned emails for words indicating an attachment. If nothing was attached, an alert would pop up.</p><p>Chauhan: I thought this would be a good feature to have in Outlook, but since I didn't have a direct communication line with the Outlook team, and I was working in India, I decided to just create a personal add-on.</p><p>2. SETTING A SITE In early 2009, Microsoft launched the Garage, an incubator for employee projects. A giant building on the Redmond, Washington, campus was filled with hardware fabrication tools, while free hosting and virtual machine access were offered to software developers.</p><p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/174/fixing-microsoft-outlook-attachment-issues">Keep reading...</a></p>