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FCC Chairman testifies on driving while texting

As my teen niece told meSpeech to text? That defeats the whole purpose of texting! It's SUPPOSED to be "secret" - like passing notes. If you want to talk, then CALL them . . .Misleading headline!!The headline on the front page (http://news.zdnet.com/) says "FCC Chair admits driving while texting". ...

Tags: Federal government, Microsoft Research, FCC, FCC Chair

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Sensors, search and sleep apnea on Microsoft Research confab's line-up

Sensors, search and sleep apnea on Microsoft Research confab's line-upsleep apnea?sleep apnea? sounds off-topic for Microsoft, but I can understand it. Military and health are two fields where there is a lot of money to be made if you can get a foot in. It's low volume, but...

Tags: apnea, sleep apnea, line-up, Microsoft Research, sensor, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-10

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. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Microsoft Research, Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-07-02

(Gallery: What's brewing inside Microsoft Research?)

(Gallery: What's brewing inside Microsoft Research?)Unfortunately, UnimpressedAs much as I hate to say it, there is not too much in Microsoft R&D from what is shown in the picture gallery that is really innovative or impressive. Nonetheless, I am confident they have other undisclosed, unacknowledged, and unreleased projects...

Tags: Research & Development, Microsoft Research, Gallery, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

Medieval secrets behind Microsoft research

Medieval secrets behind Microsoft researchMicrosoft has not invented...anything. So their research is obviously nothing more than a money pit.While talking to two programmers last week the state of Microsoft's software came up. Mind you, both are Microsoft proponents and program for the Microsoft environment. What was interesting is at the...

Tags: Research & Development, Linux, Operating systems, Directory services, Microsoft Corp., Medieval secret, Medieval, Microsoft Research

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

Microsoft Research and their secret projects

Microsoft Research and their secret projectsAgreed, congrats on U.S.A. for doing the right thing ...... and now it's time for that new friendlier form of Capitalism that Gates spoke of.We may be entering an era where technology can benefit now - in other words, the filthy greed that once was...

Tags: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-04

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 last and this century, and we're still no closer to reaching a technological...

Tags: Earth, Multi-touch, Computing, Technology, Microsoft Research, MSR, Rootkits, Internet, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-24

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 are happening. Like housewives on Linux. Asus is forecasting worldwide shipments of 10 million...

Tags: ASUS, Computing, Microsoft Research, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Microsoft Windows, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-07-06

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 there. That connection between Microsoft's research and actual company desires may be a bit...

Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Research, Singularity Effort, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-05

Microsoft Research's PlayAnywhere: A surface computer for the rest of us?

Microsoft Research's PlayAnywhere: A surface computer for the rest of us?Interesting, butThe technology discussed in the article sounds pretty nice. I however think MS should focus a lot on the multi-touch screen technology I discussed [url=http://tinyurl.com/2kfd7y]here[/url] – for which a taste of its multi-touch aspect is shown in [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h_OO4Gz28c]this video[/url].Surface...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, computer, Microsoft Research, Mary Jo, PlayAnywhere, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-07-18

Microsoft Research's PlayAnywhere: A surface computer for the rest of us?

PlayTable finally saw the light of day in the form of Microsoft's Surface multi-touch table. But there's a related technology that's been under development by Microsoft Research -- "PlayAnywhere" -- which still has yet to go commercial.At this week's Faculty Research Summit, Microsoft researchers showed off, yet again, PlayAnywhere. Here's...

Tags: Research, Corporate strategy, Code names

Blog posts 2007-07-18

What will many cores mean to future Windows releases?

Windows and existing Microsoft programming languages work just fine with one- to four-processor PCs. But when 8- 16 and 64-core client machines become the norm -- in the not-so-distant future -- will Windows, C#, Visual Basic and other Microsoft applications be able to keep up?Seemingly, the answer is no. Microsoft...

Tags: .Net Framework, App Compatibility, Corporate strategy, Development tools, Research, Virtualization, Visual Studio Orcas, Windows 7, Windows client

Blog posts 2007-05-31

Your entire life in a hard drive

Would you want a digital archive of your life? Every memory, every encounter, every click, every breath and damn near everything? Two researchers at Microsoft Research think so. In the March issue...

Tags: General, Science, Microsoft, Storage, Innovation

Blog posts 2007-03-08

Microsoft Research goes to school

Microsoft Research goes to schoolMIT should be embarassed about taking this money, It is like churchestaking money from drug dealers.European Model?Why is it that education is one of the few areas that cultural snobs don't want to compare the U.S. model to the European model?If you want to improve education...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Corporate law, education, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Research

Discussion threads 2006-12-12

Microsoft on Click Fraud: pay per percentage ads 'highly robust to fraud'

Microsoft Research is studying advertising methods that are “highly robust to fraud” and ways to eliminate “the incentives for click fraud in a system that sells clicks.”In “Pay-Per Percentage of Impressions: An Advertising Method that is Highly Robust to Fraud,” Microsoft research says:A simple method for selling advertising, pay-per-percentage of...

Tags: click fraud, advertisement, Microsoft Research

Blog posts 2006-07-01

SNARF from Microsoft Research 1.7.5 (Windows)

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 to the user a message from a manager might be seen differently than a message from...

Tags: Message, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Research, SNARF, SNARF UI, UI, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion

Software downloads 2005-12-29

Microsoft Research lifts the curtain on its latest wares

Microsoft Research lifts the curtain on its latest waresGreat.. the MS bear pulls a Chucky..Yea, I might want a infection prone company running a automaton..!Friends to the end.... this IS the end..!An inexplicable error has caused me to go "Bleemp".I hope Microsoft can control their syntax more fluently if they're...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Research

Discussion threads 2005-03-04

Microsoft Research lifts the curtain on its latest wares

Microsoft Watch reports on Microsoft's in-house TechFest showcase this week, open mostly to the company's employees and some journalists. The mini-expo gave Microsoft researchers from around the world a chance to show off projects they have been working on, such as a plush prototype teddy bear that runs on Microsoft Windows...

Tags: Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2005-03-04

Microsoft: Antispam tools assist HIV research

Microsoft: Antispam tools assist HIV researchInnovation?Could this be innovation? Microsoft didn't buy this Anti-Spam algorithm? They designed it?I'm so confused I'm not sure what to do.A Q&A linkThe work is discussed at the following :http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/feb05/02-23HIVResearch.aspNot much detail for now, but well done MS - helping those performing basic research is...

Tags: Leadership, Spam, Strategy, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, anti-spam, True Innovation, tool, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Research

Discussion threads 2005-02-23

Microsoft Research goes to Bangalore

Microsoft Research goes to BangaloreToo little, too lateThe emerging 3rd world is going for Linux and OSS. M$ COULD have stemmed the tide if they had done this a few years ago, but its too late now. Just like Commodore before it, M$ ignored their "slide" in places other than...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-01-12