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Microsoft is gearing up to explore the future of social experiences, and in this regard the company introduced a new research lab focused on social computing. The Microsoft Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs will be led by Lili Cheng in her new role as general manager. Cheng was previously the director of the Crea... |
9 October 2009
07:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available a new release of its application for desktop astronomers, a move which is synonymous with a new stage of the development process for the WorldWide Telescope web client. Users will now be able to notice that the Redmond-based company has scrapped the Technical Preview label that accompanie... |
4 September 2009
12:16 GMT |
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Microsoft announced having released Kodu Game Lab on the Xbox Live Community Games channel on Wednesday. The company is describing the fresh offering as a “new visual programming language” and it’s charging 5 USD for the chance to try and create videogames with it.The publisher is saying that the wa... |
3 July 2009
03:54 GMT |
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Microsoft is working to produce not only non-Windows operating systems, with examples such as Singularity and Midori, but also the evolution of the web browser beyond Internet Explorer. However, Microsoft Gazelle is not a plain vanilla browser; in fact, it evolved into an operating system capable of serving as platfo... |
3 July 2009
03:13 GMT |
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Microsoft considers this the right time for the browser to evolve as an operating system. This is in fact what Gazelle is about, building a web browser with a multi-principal operating system construction. Essentially, what this means is that an OS architecture is used as the model for constructing the Gazelle browse... |
10 April 2009
03:58 GMT |
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What if code could leave the boundaries of the traditional editors, and call home an infinite two-dimensional surface as a new spatial development environment? Code Canvas makes this possible. A project put together by Kael Rowan, an RSDE in the Human Interactions in Programming group at Microsoft Research, Code Canv... |
27 March 2009
07:54 GMT |
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SenseCam, a project from Microsoft Research’s Cambridge (UK) laboratory, is designed to help recall inaccessible memories for patients suffering from amnesia as well as neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer’s). According to information in a JNNP study, SenseCam technology is capable of bringing back to li... |
16 March 2009
06:27 GMT |
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Welcome to the future, the Microsoft future, that is, as seen today. The video embedded at the bottom of this article will offer you an insight into how Microsoft sees the world in just a decade from now. The video was featured at the Wharton Business Technology Conference, during the presentation of Stephen Elop, pr... |
2 March 2009
10:04 GMT |
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Suffering abundantly from the global financial crisis, and getting ready to face even tougher times ahead as the economic downturn deepens, Microsoft is turning to investments in innovation as a long-term strategy to survive and to ultimately come out on top. Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strateg... |
25 February 2009
10:30 GMT |
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With its data centers running in recession mode, Microsoft has announced the birth of Cloud Computing Futures. Having a key concept at heart, a vision in which the data center is nothing more than a computer, Cloud Computing Futures aims to no less than apply the same design and programming strategies as for any inte... |
25 February 2009
09:13 GMT |
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When Microsoft said that the acquisition of Yahoo was no longer the backbone of its strategy to compete against Google, the company emphasized that the best solution available to reduce the gap separating it from the Mountain View-based Internet giant was to grow its search engine organically. With results having yet... |
25 February 2009
07:11 GMT |
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Microsoft has taken its project focused on machine translation one step further. At the end of the past week, the Redmond company announced that the Microsoft Translator service had evolved, with the addition of a new engine. At the same time, the software giant indicated that users of several existing translation e... |
26 January 2009
06:27 GMT |
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The WorldWide Telescope Academic Development Kit January 2009 release is a project from Microsoft Research designed to catalyze the production and integration of a higher volume of content into WorldWide Telescope. Available as a free download, the kit is set up to permit the conversion of astronomical content (be it... |
23 January 2009
10:05 GMT |
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A Russian malware writer announced that he would stop development on the Zlob trojan and switch to the rootkit/exploits scene. However, before completely giving up on his creation, the hacker decided to send a few good thoughts to the security researchers from Microsoft, through a message embedded into a recent varia... |
14 January 2009
03:28 GMT |
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SongSmith is a Microsoft research project designed to narrow down, as much as possible, the gap between writing songs and writing music. Developed by Dan Morris and Sumit Basu, primary researchers at Microsoft Research, SongSmith is now available both as a trial version for free and for purchase through the Microsoft... |
9 January 2009
07:54 GMT |
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Cyberchondria is a diagnosis for patients/users at the intersection of illness-related information and web search engines. According to Microsoft, although the Internet represents a critical resource when it comes down to sources of medical information, it is the way that information is used that can generate Cyberch... |
25 November 2008
08:38 GMT |
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Microsoft Research has unveiled something called Boku, a game/editor for the PC and the Xbox 360 and aims to allow users to create their own gaming experiences in a way not too different from the LittelBigPlanet videogame Media Molecule has created for the PlayStaton 3.The tool, which is still in development, has bee... |
3 November 2008
21:31 GMT |
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Defined by Microsoft as an experiment in search and social networking, U Rank is nothing more than a prototype for a search engine designed to deliver perfect results to user queries. This is possible through the search results customization options available to users in U Rank. Released as a developing project... |
10 October 2008
06:32 GMT |
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Microsoft is by no means looking to reinvent the wheel but, at the same time, the Redmond giant is investing in reinventing gaming from the perspective of the learning process. In a partnership with New York University and a consortium of universities, Microsoft Research will participate in collaborative research ef... |
8 October 2008
06:39 GMT |
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In 2007, Microsoft invested a consistent portion of its overall $7 billion R&D budget in Europe. According to data provided by the Redmond company itself, no less than €430 million went to research and development in Europe in 2007, and the software giant is looking to increase its investment in innovation &ldqu... |
3 October 2008
07:12 GMT |
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At the Photokina fair in Cologne (Germany), Microsoft will unveil the latest photographic tool to come out its research laboratories. Microsoft Image Composite Editor is designed as an panoramic image stitcher and is already available as a free download. Microsoft Research's Matt Uyttendaele referred to the tool... |
23 September 2008
13:25 GMT |
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Microsoft Research New England opened its gates on September 22, 2008, with the Redmond giant praising the advent of a new era in computer science. With an international team of 33 researchers, the New England group is Microsoft's sixth research facility and an integral part of a multibillion dollar annual inve... |
23 September 2008
07:31 GMT |
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While Photosynth has been released to web in August, ending the Technology Preview incubation at Microsoft Live Labs, there are additional projects at the software giant designed to deliver new experiences when it comes down to the digital photographs. One illustrative example in this context is AutoCollage (also ref... |
22 August 2008
06:22 GMT |
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SIGGRAPH 2008 was the stage where Microsoft unveiled its own visions over how video, graphics and photography editing will continue to evolve. Traditionally an event focused on interactive techniques, but also animation and visual effects technology, SIGGRAPH 2008 manages to deliver a sneak peek at the innovations co... |
14 August 2008
06:46 GMT |
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Former full-time Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, whose presence in China was confirmed for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, also participated in the 10th Anniversary Innovation Forum in Hong Kong on August 12. Gates applauded the evolution of Microsoft Research (MSR) Asia, an organization that celebrated its first deca... |
14 August 2008
05:20 GMT |
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Microsoft is a software company that allows itself to flirt a tad with hardware design and manufacturing. However, the Redmond giant is limited for the most part at producing hardware peripherals, and is best known for its collections of mouse and keyboard devices. At the very same time, the software giant is making ... |
5 August 2008
09:45 GMT |
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At the start of 2007, Microsoft was debuting a new product category dubbed surface computing with Microsoft Surface, a tabletop with a Windows Vista-running machine under the hood and multi-touch, gesture and object recognition capabilities. Now, the Redmond company is gearing up to introduce the evolution of its tab... |
29 July 2008
09:30 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to provide ample proof of its commitment to support the academic community deal with collecting, storing and publishing information, and the ninth annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit acted as the stage for the company's latest initiative in this regard. Microsoft Research unveiled a numb... |
28 July 2008
13:02 GMT |
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Microsoft has unveiled a new Machine Translation tool, courtesy of Microsoft Research, bundled with Live Search as an online service designed to provide writing assistance. The ESL (English as a Second Language) Assistant is nothing more than a prototype at this point in time, and is set up to focus on a limited numb... |
8 July 2008
11:38 GMT |
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Windows 7 and Windows 7 Server are not the only operating systems under development at Microsoft. In fact, the Redmond company is cooking a variety of projects involving Windows platforms for everything from mobile phones to embedded devices. And yet, at the same time, the Redmond company is hard at work hammering aw... |
30 June 2008
12:45 GMT |
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mPlatform is a project from Microsoft Research built under the leadership of Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research Principal Researcher. Defined as "a reconfigurable architecture and efficient data sharing mechanism for modular sensor nodes", mPlatform is essentially a collection of multiple heterogeneous processors designed... |
23 June 2008
12:00 GMT |
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Rick Rashid is a Microsoft top executive who has contributed not only to the Windows operating system, but also to platforms such as UNIX and Mac OS X. The Redmond company announced that Rashid was honored with the Piore Award from the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) Emanuel R. Piore Foundati... |
11 June 2008
12:46 GMT |
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Google and Microsoft are unlikely partners, as the two companies have conflicting interests especially in terms of the search engine and online advertising markets. Still, the Mountain View search giant and the Redmond software company do manage to find common ground. In this regard, user privacy is one area where th... |
27 May 2008
07:05 GMT |
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Microsoft is increasing its focus on innovation in the field of robotics, but the Redmond company is doing much more than simply provide a platform for the creation of software applications designed to power robots. It is also providing sponsorship for third-party robotics research projects in addition to the Researc... |
16 May 2008
09:38 GMT |
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Microsoft, via its research division, is embarking on new initiatives designed to explore next-generation computing by offering support for enhancements resulting in increased energy efficiency. According to the company, there are several areas where the focus is at an apex, including advanced power management, the e... |
29 April 2008
05:20 GMT |
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Microsoft Research is dipping into the human gene pool through a set of new projects costing the Redmond company in excess of $850,000. Via the Computational Challenges of Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) program, Microsoft has revealed that it offers support for no less than six research projects, with a coupl... |
18 April 2008
04:00 GMT |
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Undoubtedly by now you have heard of the WorldWide Telescope, a Microsoft Research project developed by Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay. WorldWide Telescope is based on the initial concept and work done by Jim Gray, the former researcher and manager of Microsoft Research's eScience Group. In fact, just because Worl... |
4 March 2008
05:11 GMT |
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Writing a song is one thing. Writing music is an entirely different matter altogether. And combining both song authoring and music creation is not a task to be taken lightly. While most people are all but too familiar with words, and can deal without any issue with the lyrics, putting together the text of a song, the... |
29 February 2008
10:44 GMT |
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It turns out that the secret Microsoft project aimed at changing the world will actually manage to point you toward the stars. From Microsoft Research, and courtesy of the work being done by Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay, comes WorldWide Telescope, with the promise of permitting you to explore the universe from your d... |
28 February 2008
04:00 GMT |
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Microsoft is readying a new strategy for Windows update based on a technology which shares the same behavior as self replicating malicious code, more commonly known as a variety of malware dubbed worms. The Redmond company's alternative approach to servicing its Windows platform with updates using the same techn... |
19 February 2008
08:50 GMT |
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InkSeine, a Microsoft research project, available exclusively inhouse at Microsoft during the development stages, is now open for testing. The brainchild of Ken Hinckley, a senior researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at Microsoft Research Redmond, InkSeine is built as a new inking tool addressed a... |
15 February 2008
10:41 GMT |
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Just for a minute forget about Internet Explorer 8, MinWin, Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7. There are other projects going on at Microsoft that the world had no idea about. And yet their impact could be nothing sort of life changing. At least, this is the promise of Microsoft Evangelist Robert Scoble... |
15 February 2008
09:52 GMT |
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Get ready to download InkSeine for Windows Vista Tablet PCs and ultra-mobile PCs. According to Microsoft, the first public release of InkSeine will be dropped on February 15, 2008. A prototype inking application developed by Microsoft Research, InkSeine has so far been available exclusively inhouse. But starting with... |
8 February 2008
07:31 GMT |
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It's quite simple to see where Microsoft has been, or where Virtual Earth is. All you have to do is head over at Live Maps and give the service a try. But when it comes down to where Virtual Earth is going, things are not as simple. However, Microsoft is indeed offering a sneak peek into the evolution of Virtual... |
22 January 2008
05:48 GMT |
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Microsoft is hard at work on a new hard disk off-loading technique designed to save energy. While the first inherent conclusion that comes synonymous with the concept of energy saving is that this is nothing more than a green project from the Redmond company, the fact of the matter is that whatever the ecological imp... |
21 January 2008
09:45 GMT |
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Building on the vision of the natural UI, a Microsoft's Research technology has grown into the Zooming User Interface, also known as Zumobi. Now, Zumobi is, by all means, not a Microsoft project. The start-up, formerly code-named ZenZui, however, is lead by former employees from the Redmond company. And on top o... |
18 December 2007
03:26 GMT |
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Despite having a luxuriant portfolio of technologies and being the largest publisher of patents in the United States in 2006, Samsung has turned to Microsoft resources when it came down to building its wireless digital photo frame. Gearing up for the 2007 holiday season, Samsung introduced new 8" Digital Photo Frame ... |
13 December 2007
04:21 GMT |
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Microsoft is playing around with your psyche, in order to create a password solution capable of offering advanced protection to end users. For this, the Redmond company has debuted InkblotPasswords. The project is a result of work done under the umbrella of Microsoft research, and at this point in time, it is nothing... |
10 December 2007
10:07 GMT |
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Get ready for a new level of video special effects and interactive processing, courtesy of Microsoft Research and the University of Washington. Just watch the video fragment embedded at the bottom of this article, offered by Miel Van Opstal, Microsoft Product Evangelist, in order to get an idea of the Interactive Vi... |
23 November 2007
04:19 GMT |
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You think you can handle a mouse? Well, forget all you think you know about mice, and feast your eyes on the Microsoft Soap mouse. The fact of the matter is that the Redmond company is by no means reinventing the wheel, or in this case the mouse. But the Soap mouse project from Microsoft Research does redefine the us... |
16 November 2007
09:21 GMT |
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