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I've always been a bit confused on topics related to MSR. Everyone seems to hate Microsoft, for their products, for their policies, for pretty much everything.
by siddhant 17y ago
I've always been a bit confused on topics related to MSR. Everyone seems to hate Microsoft, for their products, for their policies, for pretty much everything. Although I've been noticing that its going down. But still Microsoft Research happens to be the most respected research group. And thats in my very humble opinion. (I'm just completing my undergraduation.)
The kind of people who join MSR, the kind of work that they do, the kind of groups (in academia) that they are associated with - everything happens to be top notch. Still there are so many people who are anti-MS. Confuses me everytime.
- chime 17y agoMa Bell and Bell Labs had the same issue. It's definitely surprising but nothing new.
- bad_user 17y agoMy perception is that MSR has the same flaw as Bell Labs once did ... they keep coming with cool ideas that aren't getting productized (of course, I'm too young to have an opinion here :)) Anyway, on the programming languages front, Microsoft is releasing some pretty cool stuff and they should get some credit for that, regardless of their history.
- gaius 17y agoClearType, F#, Surface and Songsmith are all productized MSR projects.
- wglb 17y agoBut isn't that quite often true of research outfits in large companies? Certainly the success of UNIX was not due to the internal productization efforts of AT&T, nor Smalltalk of Parc, and so on. The point to research is somewhat parallel to investing in startups--you fund many tens of ideas, and some take off with a life of their own, and others don't.