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Re:Microsoft to Close Microsoft Research Lab in Silicon Valley by peterkelly on Thursday September 18, 2014 @03:40PM (#8337169)
I understand the downvotes as a knee-jerk reaction, but the thing to understand here is that MS research is largely separate from the product development side.

Spend some time having a look at some of their publications and you'll see what i mean.

Examples

- http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/barrelfish/

- http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/fsharp/

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Re:Microsoft to Close Microsoft Research Lab in Silicon Valley by Someone1234 on Thursday September 18, 2014 @03:50PM (#8337233)
Special mention for this one also:

https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/

Unfortunately it never went anywhere (VERY unfortunately). Also this one more recently:

https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/drawbridge/

Which might wind up being Microsoft's answer to Docker-like containers.

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Re:Microsoft to Close Microsoft Research Lab in Silicon Valley by amaks on Thursday September 18, 2014 @04:05PM (#8337310)
Singularity has evolved into Midori project but to the latest rumor it was cancelled and the team disbanded.
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Re:Microsoft to Close Microsoft Research Lab in Silicon Valley by majorsc2noob on Thursday September 18, 2014 @03:53PM (#8337249)
You do know that fsharp is a pretty big deal for Microsoft and is shipped as part of Visual Studio, one of their biggest products, right?
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Re:Microsoft to Close Microsoft Research Lab in Silicon Valley by Someone1234 on Thursday September 18, 2014 @04:05PM (#8337309)
I don't understand why you and the other person are trying to "correct" them? I thought their point was obvious: MS Research innovates, and then links examples (including F# which goes on to be a successful product as you pointed out).

F# being in full production doesn't disprove what they said, it further proves it.

PS - I disagree with the person above's proposition that MS Research is the "only" innovate branch of Microsoft. I am just posting to get clarification on what you and the other poster are getting at.

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Re:Microsoft to Close Microsoft Research Lab in Silicon Valley by Locke1689 on Thursday September 18, 2014 @03:49PM (#8337224)
F# is not an MSR project anymore.
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