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  • Machine learning to get its day in the Redmond sun

    Get your buzzword bingo scorecards ready. Machine learning is Microsoft executives' newest favorite phrase.

    Blog posts | April 11, 2012 9:24am PDT

  • Microsoft readies a Facebook 'Game Theory Lab'

    Microsoft Research has launched its first Facebook game and is working on developing a more complete Facebook game-theory platform.

    Blog posts | September 26, 2011 9:00am PDT

  • Microsoft shows off Avatar Kinect shortly before expected release

    Microsoft execs have been talking up Avatar Kinect -- the ability to conduct virtual meetings among avatars using the Kinect sensor -- for months. Finally, the release date for the technology...

    Blog posts | July 18, 2011 3:36pm PDT

  • Microsoft Research delivers cloud development kit for Windows Phone 7

    Microsoft Research has made available for download a developer preview of its Windows Phone 7 + Cloud Services Software Development Kit (SDK).The new SDK is related to Project Hawaii, a research...

    Blog posts | January 27, 2011 9:37am PST

  • Microsoft experiments with 'HomeOS' and home app store ideas

    Microsoft Research is working on a project known as "HomeOS," which will provide a way to isolate non/less-technical users from the heterogeneous and often incompatible mess of devices they are...

    Blog posts | September 10, 2010 11:49am PDT

  • Are routerless datacenters in Microsoft's future?

    Microsoft Research is exploring a new way to connect servers directly to other servers, without the use of any switches or dedicated networking inside a datacenter container.

    Blog posts | August 31, 2010 9:51am PDT

  • Microsoft's RearType: Physical keys to the iPad, Kindle and tablet kingdoms?

    Microsoft's product groups are busy crafting their answer(s) to the Apple iPad. But Microsoft Research is working on slate/tablet-related projects of its own, including a way to add physical keys...

    Blog posts | August 9, 2010 10:45am PDT

  • Microsoft Research has its head in the clouds, too

    It's not just the Microsoft product groups that are charging ahead with getting Microsoft "All In" with the cloud. Microsoft Research seems to be stepping up its work on a variety of cloud-related...

    Blog posts | June 18, 2010 10:15am PDT

  • Dear diary: I did WHAT!

    Microsoft Research is driving a new class of digital device: the SenseCam - a lifecorder. Record your daily life - including Tequila binges. Diary writing is about to be replaced with an explosion...

    Blog posts | March 16, 2010 8:51pm PDT

  • Microsoft's Gazelle browser: A layperson's explanation

    Microsoft Research has published a new article that explains in more layperson-like terms exactly what its "Gazelle" Web browser is and why the company's researchers believe it's needed.

    Blog posts | July 2, 2009 8:41am PDT

  • The technologies which will change our lives

    We are at a strange place in this world's history, where the Industrial Revolution is over, and we're in the new technological age. So many things have been discovered over the course of the...

    Blog posts | October 24, 2008 1:32pm PDT

  • Linux for housewives. XP for geeks.

    The computer proletariat is rising up - and computing will never be the same. Tiny, sub-$500 "netbooks" like the Asus Eee are the hottest thing going in notebooks today. And some surprising things...

    Blog posts | July 6, 2008 10:52pm PDT

  • Microsoft plays with new non-Windows OS; If only it could start from scratch

    Microsoft Research has developed a non-Windows OS for academic types to play with. The subliminal message from Microsoft: Folks, we'd love to start from scratch with an OS, but we just can't go...

    Blog posts | March 5, 2008 4:09am PST

  • Gates still finding his voice

    Following launch of corporate telephony software, Microsoft's chairman discusses how speech recognition has made inroads and where it has yet to go.Video: Gates' crystal ball Video: Phones should...

    News items | October 19, 2007 4:00am PDT

  • Photo: Rethinking the keyboard

    Microsoft Research's prototype software program for handset keypads is designed to let consumers conduct online queries using abbreviations.

    Image galleries | July 20, 2006 3:58pm PDT

  • Photo: Rethinking the keyboard

    Microsoft Research's prototype software program for handset keypads is designed to let consumers conduct online queries using abbreviations.

    Image galleries | July 20, 2006 2:49pm PDT

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