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Microsoft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Microsoft Corp., in which the ruling was in Microsoft's favor, the release of Windows for Workgroups 3.11, a new version of the consumer line of Windows, and Windows NT 3.1, a server-based operating system with a similar user interface to consumer versions of the operating system, but with an entirely different kernel. Microsoft hires many foreign workers as well as domestic ones, and is an outspoken opponent of the cap on H1B visas, which allow companies in the United States to employ certain foreign workers. Microsoft has been called a "velvet sweatshop" in reference to allegations of the company working its employees to the point where it might be bad for their health. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Microsoft_Corporation   (7328 words)

InformationWeek.com Microsoft didn't exactly have a reputation for innovation; after all, it bought its flagship DOS operating system for a pittance from a small Seattle company and then licensed it to IBM--and the rest of the world--for huge profits. Microsoft Research is overseen by Rick Rashid, a former professor from Carnegie Mellon University who's credited with designing the Mach operating system kernel--ironically, the underlying technology in Apple Computer's new OS X operating system. Microsoft Research has generated hundreds of patents, and those patents provide both a cache of intellectual property that can be used in future products and as currency in future business deals. www.informationweek.com /828/microsoft.htm   (1800 words)

ITworld.com - Microsoft Research aims to ease development Microsoft Research is working on a technology that will enable software developers and system integrators (SIs) to develop and modify enterprise business applications at a higher abstraction level than basic coding, according to a researcher at Microsoft Research India in Bangalore. Microsoft Research India is working on this project, called internally the Rigorous Software Engineering project, with Indian software development outsourcers and systems integrators, as well as Indian educational institutions. Microsoft Research India was set up in January by Microsoft Corp., of Redmond, Washington, to research a number of areas, including computing technologies for emerging markets. www.itworld.com /AppDev/050613msresearch/pfindex.html   (623 words)

Microsoft Research - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Microsoft Research is a division of Microsoft created in 1991 for researching various computer science topics and issues. One of the stated goals of Microsoft Research is to "support long-term computer science research that is not bound by product cycles."[1] There are laboratories around the world in Bangalore, Beijing, Cambridge (set up by Roger Needham), Mountain View, Redmond, and San Francisco. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Microsoft_Research   (105 words)

Microsoft turns focus to emerging markets Microsoft Corp.'s research unit is turning to social scientists in a new effort to understand the long-term possibilities for computer technology in developing countries. A Microsoft Research lab, to be inaugurated tomorrow in Bangalore, India, plans to employ anthropologists, ethnographers and others to observe and document the lives of people in India's rural villages. Many of the researchers are expected to be hired from within the country, while others will move to the lab from Redmond and other Microsoft Research facilities around the world. seattlepi.nwsource.com /business/207366_msftresearch11.html   (1055 words)

Facts about Microsoft Research 1999 However, even though most of Microsoft's researchers are focused on long-term goals extending far beyond the current product cycles, their close interactions with the rest of Microsoft allow them to share short-term results with the product development groups. Microsoft Research realized early on the importance of expanding the organization beyond the United States to tap into the world's pre-eminent computer science talent and is also committed to growing the organization to 600 by 2000. Microsoft researchers include renowned industry figures whose talents are recognized with prestigious national and international honors. web.mit.edu /alliance/msdocs.html   (1563 words)

Microsoft Research Pays Off In Longhorn - Technology News by TechWeb At Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC), executives said the company's think tank is contributing a good chunk of the realtime graphics, GUI advancements, advanced storage and collaboration technology planned for the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. For instance, the group's work is helping Microsoft carve out key Longhorn features for WinFS including natural language searching and stacks, which will enable users to organize and visualize relationships between people and their contacts and applications in the context of a project. Rashid also noted Microsoft is getting set to debut this fall a slew of wristwatches and smart devices based on the company's personal object technology, based on work done by Microsoft research. www.techweb.com /wire/story/TWB20031029S0013   (441 words)

Microsoft Monitor: ODF and Office   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) The Microsoft Monitor Weblog is a companion to Jupiter's Microsoft Monitor Research Service and provides additional news, analysis and insight relevant to the areas most important for Microsoft's growth in both the business and consumer marketplaces. Microsoft executives told me that the company essentially is funding several other companies to create Office-to-ODF format conversion and release it under a so-called open-source license. Microsoft argues that the commercial software development method is better than open source. www.microsoftmonitor.com /archives/016375.html   (1047 words)

Database Pipeline | Microsoft Research Microsoft on Wednesday outlined its latest efforts in applying data-mining algorithms, machine-learning techniques, and computer modeling to the search for more effective HIV vaccines. Microsoft researchers are working with doctors and scientists from the University of Washington and Australia's Royal Perth Hospital in an attempt to identify patterns of genetic mutation in the human immunodeficiency virus and in the immune systems of HIV patients. Microsoft has been working in the area of HIV research for about 18 months, says David Heckerman, lead researcher and manager of Microsoft Research's machine learning and applied statistics group. www.databasepipeline.com /60403178   (610 words)

Microsoft Monitor: Microsoft Monitor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) Microsoft's Steve Ball gave Robert Scoble some reasons for the startup sound, which as of current planning cannot be turned off: 1) "A spiritual side of the branding experience. Microsoft's home court is the desktop, and the company wants to maintain the relevance of desktop software. Microsoft has used the software license to amass a successful computing empire that might as well print money, because the company makes so much dough (I reckon more than $130 million a day during Microsoft's 2006 fiscal fourth quarter). www.microsoftmonitor.com   (16346 words)

Research Areas Microsoft Research advances the state of the art in many computer science disciplines. We research and develop software that contributes to compelling and effective social interactions, with a focus on user-centered design processes and rapid prototyping. Our research into operating systems, networks and distributed computing is focused on developing technologies that enable computers to operate more effectively in a networked environment, and that provide the infrastructure required to enable the deployment, operation, management and security of distributed applications. www.research.microsoft.com /research   (620 words)

PC World - Microsoft Research Offers a Look Inside the Lab The research organization, which has grown in the dozen years since its inception to more than 700 people in five labs, has projects ranging from crafting more-reliable software to clamping down on spam to cross-referencing maps of the planet and the skies. Microsoft supplies Windows XP for Tablet PCs in the first commercial tablets, which shipped last fall. Microsoft has cut deals with a handful of leading operators of FM radio signal transmitters to provide the low-level network. www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,110295,00.asp   (1220 words)

Join the Microsoft.com Research Panel As a member of the Microsoft.com Research Panel, you will be part of a community of technology and business professionals and software users who will provide Microsoft with valuable insight. Anyone over the age of 18 living in the United States or Canada is eligible to join the Microsoft.com Research Panel. Microsoft and comScore SurveySite, the research company administering the Microsoft.com Research Panel program, abide by the privacy guidelines of the Professional Market Research Society and the Council of American Survey Research Organizations (CASRO). www.microsoft.com /mscorp/marketing_research   (347 words)

Microsoft Live Labs Microsoft Live Labs was proud to be a major sponsor at this year’s 29th annual ACM SIGIR conference which took place here in Seattle, Washington August 6th-11th at the University of Washington. SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval. Overall, Microsoft had 60+ delegates attend the conference and participated in the presentation of 13 papers. labs.live.com   (711 words)

Microsoft Research Aims To Blend Blue-Sky With Practical - Networking Technology News by TechWeb But Microsoft Research's most important contributions could come over the next few years, as it seeks to play a role in repositioning the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant from the king of the desktop into a company with a leadership presence in mobile and network-aware computing. But the company's researchers are already looking farther afield, working on prototype designs such as Singularity, which is envisioned as a highly dependable OS that doesn't crash, corrupt data, or succumb to viruses. Research is progressing on machine-learning algorithms and on advanced graphics. www.techweb.com /wire/networking/160503469   (1101 words)

Microsoft Research Tech Transfers: Better Decisions Faster: Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk ... Microsoft Research Tech Transfers: Better Decisions Faster: Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 are poised for launch, and key components of the products stem from technology transfers by Microsoft Research. Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 are poised for launch, and key components of the products stem from technology transfers by Microsoft Research. The collaborations between Microsoft Research and the teams that produced these products are the latest in a long history of technology transfers from research labs within Microsoft into the products the company ships. microsoft.com /presspass/features/2005/oct05/10-31TechTransfer.mspx   (2176 words)

[No title] Microsoft Research DRM talk Cory Doctorow cory@eff.org June 17, 2004 This talk was originally given to Microsoft's Research Group and other interested parties from within the company at their Redmond offices on June 17, 2004. Microsoft has sunk a lot of capital into DRM systems, and spent a lot of time sending folks like Martha and Brian and Peter around to various smoke-filled rooms to make sure that Microsoft DRM finds a hospitable home in the future world. Scoble argued that Microsoft's music was a sounder investment, because Microsoft would have more downstream licensees for its proprietary format and therefore you'd have a richer ecosystem of devices to choose from when you were shopping for gizmos to play your virtual records on. www.craphound.com /msftdrm.txt   (6720 words)

Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2003 The Microsoft Research Faculty Summit provides a unique opportunity for leading faculty members and Microsoft researchers, architects, and executives to collectively discuss a vision for the future of computing. The Microsoft Windows operating system provides a reliable, secure, and maintainable solution for those that wish to focus on their research or business and not the computer science issues of keeping an HPC cluster running. Microsoft Research has developed, demonstrated, and deployed two generations of correctness tools and debugging tools, which are changing the way in which Microsoft develops software. research.microsoft.com /workshops/FS2003   (3155 words)

Microsoft StepUI: No More Couch-Potato Excuses At Microsoft Research's TechFest this week, the company is showing off 155 demonstrations from its five worldwide research labs. Microsoft Research's StepUI, or Step User Interface, is custom-made for these individuals. Microsoft Research's India Lab will be showing off work it has done around the Virtual India Project in which it has been engaged. www.microsoft-watch.com /article2/0,2180,1932400,00.asp   (1055 words)

Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2004 The networked embedded computing group at Microsoft Research is developing new architectures, models, and tools for organizing and programming these systems, as well as innovative applications in areas such as security, transportation, and healthcare. The goal of the project is to enable researchers to build less infrastructure and concentrate on the research, development, and deployment of applications that support and enhance collaborative learning in classroom and distance learning settings. Microsoft Research Researchers have examined a variety of such properties, including linkage structure, page content, and page evolution, and have found that outliers in the statistical distribution of these properties are predominantly caused by Eeb spam. research.microsoft.com /workshops/FS2004   (4204 words)

What is Microsoft? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary Microsoft Project Integration: Intuit QuickBase - Project management software applications by Intuit are used by 40 of the Fortune 100. The Microsoft home page hosts a collection of company news articles, as well as links to product information, training, support, free software, events, and company information. Contains links to research areas, technical reports, news, researchers, and free demos of research projects and downloadable files of interest. www.webopedia.com /TERM/M/Microsoft.html   (325 words)

Microsoft Research Finds a New Use for Data-Mining Algorithms Microsoft Research's machine learning and applied statistics group has found a new use for data-mining algorithms that it developed. Not only do these algorithms help Microsoft analyze e-mail patterns as part of its quest to eliminate spam, but they also can be used to unearth patterns in the genetic mutations of patients with HIV. Microsoft researchers are presenting their findings at the 12th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections on Wednesday. www.microsoft-watch.com /article2/0,2180,1769094,00.asp   (623 words)

Raindrop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) Raindrop is the group blog for the Social Computing Group and Community Technologies Group at Microsoft Research. Jon Pincus from the Systems and networking group at Microsoft Research has a thought provoking work-in-progress piece entitled 'computer science is really a social science' in which he describes how computer science is turning to more traditional social science both for problem areas and problem solutions (that's my likely innacurate summary - it's worth a read). Microsoft ones tell me how important they are, butothers often just tell me that a new app is available. raindrop.msresearch.us   (2588 words)

Microsoft Research ConferenceXP Project The ConferenceXP research platform enables researchers and developers to create distributed applications that take advantage of ConferenceXP technology as well as Tablet PCs and wireless networks. By partnering with research organizations and universities, the ConferenceXP project combines the academic community’s expertise in the learning sciences with Microsoft’s expertise in technology. ConferenceXP is licensed for non-commercial use, subject to the restrictions in the license. research.microsoft.com /conferencexp   (544 words)

Fool.com: Stock Research - Microsoft Corporation Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has long been the ultimate Rule Maker of the software industry, but the Redmond giant is at a crossroads. Add in fierce competition and an industry shift toward the Internet and away from Microsoft's desktop stranglehold, and the company is looking vulnerable. In this Motley Fool Research coverage, analyst John Del Vecchio assesses the software giant's financials, evaluates its transformation from a PC software company to an Internet business, and helps you decide whether Microsoft's best days are still ahead. www.fool.com /research/reports/msft.htm   (172 words)

Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) The difference between the movement of phytoplankton and zooplankton is that zooplankton can often weight too much to just float along, like the phytoplankton, so they use spikes for weight distribution (Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia). Research has been done that could prove plankton itself is a good food source for humans. (see the bottom of this page) "good eating." Further research has been done to prove plankton is a good source of protein and carbohydrates. drake.marin.k12.ca.us /stuwork/rockwater/PLANKTON/zooplankton.html   (328 words)

Microsoft Research goes to Bangalore | CNET News.com The facility, Microsoft Research India, will focus on geographical information systems, multilingual systems, sensor networks and technologies for emerging markets, the company said. This is Microsoft's third research facility located outside the United States. Microsoft Research India has already signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Science and Technology to work on some joint projects. news.com.com /Microsoft+Research+...+Bangalore/2100-1008_3-5533395.html   (744 words)

AMR Research: Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 Meet Enterprise Resistance Microsoft’s current power derives from the desktop in Microsoft Office and the Windows operating system. In fact, the company’s surge into new enterprise territory has its foothold and foundation on the desktop, so it’s got a great deal to lose if its dominant status on that surface is shaken. This document is available to AMR Research clients only. www.amrresearch.com /Content/View.asp?pmillid=19349   (179 words)

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