Microsoft research does the PDC keynote
Blog Wednesdays keynote here at PDC was given by Rick Rashid from Microsoft Research, some interesting highlights of the reams of facts and figures that were given here Microsoft Research is modelled on an academic structure like a university faculty of...
[October 29, 2008, 17:12]
Microsoft opens German research centre
News Microsoft on Monday officially opened a research centre in Aachen, Germany, a move that makes the company eligible to take part in projects funded by the European Commission and by individual European countries.
[April 27, 2004, 8:55]
Microsoft, Intel to sponsor multicore research
News Microsoft and Intel are expected to launch a joint research initiative on Tuesday to tackle programming for multicore processors. Both Microsoft and Intel — as well other IT companies — have made programming tools for multicore processing a high...
[March 17, 2008, 14:26]
Dialogue Box 6.4: Away day at Microsoft Research
Video Ever wondered what goes on inside Microsoft's Cambridge research lab? Dialogue Box went along to a recent open day, to discover what 'Enabling Innovation Through Research' means in practice.
[May 18, 2009, 16:10]
Inside Microsoft Research UK
News Chris Bishop, chief research scientist at Microsoft Research UK, talks to ZDNet UK about turning blue-sky science into commercial products, and whether he has ever told Steve Ballmer he is wrong.
[May 8, 2009, 13:35]
Microsoft Webcast: Using Microsoft adCenter Demographics and Microsoft adCenter Labs Research Tools to Increase Your Return on Investment
White Papers The presenter share case studies, demonstrations, and tips on how to apply similar techniques to one's own advertising campaigns using Microsoft adCenter demographics and Microsoft adCenter Labs research tools.
[September 6, 2008, 1:01]
Comparing Research In Motion and Microsoft Mobile Solutions
White Papers This paper compares the Research In Motion BlackBerry solution (BlackBerry mobile devices and BlackBerry Enterprise Server) with the Microsoft® mobile solution (Microsoft Windows Mobile® and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 with Microsoft...
[October 16, 2009, 0:00]
French Research Center Improves E-Mail System With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
White Papers The Marseille-Luminy CRNS-CIML immunology center is a French laboratory that specializes in cancer research. The center relies on its e-mail system, which handles all aspects of research communications, including the dissemination of reports and...
[December 15, 2006, 0:00]
Power Systems Research Implements a Web-Based Data Portal Built on Microsoft Software
White Papers Power Systems Research is the authoritative source of market information and business intelligence for the power products and drivetrain industry. Implementing a unified Web-based portal solution, built with Microsoft .NET Framework using Microsoft...
[February 17, 2007, 0:00]
Microsoft takes rotting leaf out of Sinclair Research playbook
Blog All of the above - and I mean all - happened to Sinclair Research twenty five years ago. None of that happened - well, nowhere near enough - as far as I could tell at Sinclair Research, and the result was hundreds of thousands of disappointed...
[January 21, 2008, 10:28]
Microsoft takes rotting leaf out of Sinclair Research playbook
Blog Comment I would only add that Microsoft has one other thing that Sinclair didn't have - a huge pool of fanatically dedicated users who are willing to accept the unreliable, broken rubbish being sold to them. Excellent analysis.
[January 21, 2008, 12:41]
Inside Microsoft Research UK
Video Chris Bishop, chief research scientist, talks to ZDNet UK about turning blue-sky science into commercial products, and whether he has ever told Steve Ballmer he is wrong.
[May 8, 2009, 13:31]
Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 98 Patch Research Organizer
Downloads When you use the Research Organizer, you may receive the following error message: This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.
[October 25, 1999, 8:00]
SNARF from Microsoft Research
Downloads Microsoft Research's Community Technology presents SNARF, the Social Network and Relationship Finder. SNARF was built around the notion that social network information that is already available to the computer system can be usefully reflected...
[December 29, 2005, 23:04]
Researchers to build peer-to-peer storage monsters
News Microsoft Research is working on one such beast, a project codenamed Farsite. This week, in fact, the lead developer of Microsoft Farsite is attending a Lake Tahoe research retreat sponsored by UC Berkeley computer science students working on...
[January 10, 2001, 8:26]
Wanted: Software researchers in China
News Microsoft is on the lookout for research talent in China to focus on four core future technologies -- speech recognition and synthesis, digital pen, panoramic pictures and multimedia compression for wireless communications networks.
[May 10, 2002, 13:28]
Microsoft's new nanotech display technology
Blog Today's MIT Technology Review reports on an intriguing display technology from an unusual source - Microsoft Research. It's a simple idea, which commends it, and Microsoft Research says that it can be built using fairly standard semiconductor...
[July 21, 2008, 7:25]
Microsoft's Mundie offers glimpse of computing future
News Microsoft chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie on Thursday offered a long-term view of where Microsoft and the world of computing are heading over the next few decades. Mundie gave a few examples from Microsoft Research to illustrate...
[September 26, 2008, 10:44]
Microsoft seeks to build more useful thesaurus
News The Next Generation Writing Assistance project within Microsoft's research unit is aiming to build a more useful thesaurus, by tapping techniques used to translate languages. It's one of dozens of projects that will be shown as part of an effort to...
[February 24, 2009, 10:25]
Microsoft and Lenovo plan joint China lab
News Microsoft and PC maker Lenovo said on Wednesday that they will build a joint research and development lab in China, marking the first time that the software maker has built such a facility with another company.
[April 19, 2007, 9:53]



