Techfest
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Microsoft research: No pain, no gain
News Not every research project the software giant embarks on will see fruition, but without taking high risk, there can be no real success, says head of Microsoft's Beijing lab.
Tags: Search, Software engineering/development, Product development and design
Microsoft wants to know who your friends are
News The company's research unit looks to help computer users manage the thousands of e-mails and other electronic communiques they get each day. An automatically updated "inner circle" is one approach.
Tags: E-mail servers
Microsoft's research labs offer freebies
News Many projects at TechFest are simply research concepts that will never come to market, but some are being made publicly available.
Tags: R&D
Microsoft aims to build a better thesaurus
News Borrowing techniques used in machine translation, a team of researchers in Redmond believes it has found a better way to serve up synonyms.
Tags: Business applications, Mobile applications, Microsoft Corp., machine translation, Intranet, TechFest, product development, researcher, Microsoft Surface, technique
Microsoft to start testing 'Kumo' search service
News Beginning this week, some of Redmond's employees will get access to the new look for Microsoft's Live Search, CNET News has learned.
Tags: Search, Twitter, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Search, Tool, Kumo, Environment, co-founder, Search Technology, search tool
Microsoft launches 'Singularity' OS prototype
News At TechFest 2008, the software giant launched an operating system aimed at allowing researchers to develop new kinds of computer architecture.
Tags: Operating systems, R&D
