Innovation is not just about cool new products. In technology, the best ideas require a) really smart people and b) lots of funding. For the past 33 years, Microsoft has had both in spades. Yet, the ...

Where have we seen that before? That was my first thought upon reading this week’s coverage of the new Ai Pin from the startup Humane, with features including the ability to project an interface onto ...

When a senior Microsoft engineer floated the idea of wiping out C and C++ from the company’s codebase by 2030, the remark ...

Microsoft has shelved its experimental underwater datacenter despite "promising findings." Project Natick, which first launched in 2015 as a Microsoft Research venture, is officially dead in the water ...

The Microsoft Research division continues to work on motion gesture recognition projects similar to the company's efforts with Kinect. A newly revealed Microsoft Research project, uLink, is working on ...

"At that time, we created an interface that turned out to be too low level because it forced developers to create their own storage allocation maps," said Michael Schroeder, assistant director of ...

In early 2023, Professor Alice Oh and her colleagues at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) realized they needed to address the quickly growing interest in OpenAI ChatGPT ...

Microsoft was issued 146 patents in November as of November 25, according to the Patents.com site … and this isn’t a particularly blockbuster month. In October, Redmond staked its intellectual ...

Microsoft Research, the R&D arm of the Redmond software giant, is testing the storage of huge amounts of data on glass plates in a futuristic initiative dubbed “Project Silica.” If successful, it ...

Microsoft Research has re-imagined the Web browser to include its own operating system. In a technical report published on February 19, researchers argued that a radical change in browser architecture ...

What do cats and Internet security have in common? If you had attended Microsoft’s TechFest 2007 on Tuesday in Redmond, Washington, you would know. At the event, which gave Microsoft Research a chance ...