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Microsoft research is nearly legendary in many academic circles. As prestigious as many top colleges. There are many brilliant people working there. Admittadel
by Joof 11y ago
Microsoft research is nearly legendary in many academic circles. As prestigious as many top colleges. There are many brilliant people working there.
Admittadely, the prestige probably has a lot to do with the previous circumstances (work on whatever, don't worry about the company), but it seems like this will be a very beneficial move for Microsoft.
- emersonrsantos 11y agoAs IBM research. And now, the two companies are making a late debut of their cloud linux thingies, as well as porting every important software to it.
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- melted 11y agoResearch, yes. But Research alone can't pull this off. And most of the rest of the company can't tell logistic regression from a hole in the ground.
- yeukhon 11y agoAlmost nearly every single successful Google products were either developed out of research or out of 20%, or via acquisition. Most in-house business projects don't end up successful (Google Plus?) A big company has to invest heavily in R&D to push the limit. You just need one big idea that works and become a game changer.
- melted 11y agoAt Google most in-house projects are infrastructural, and if you look at the scale at which they run and the fact that there's basically nothing that even comes close, they are wildly successful. You could also say Android was in-house, because what they bought is not at all what they ended up shipping. What they bought looked like a Blackberry rip-off, what they ended up shipping was an iPhone rip-off. And let us not forget Ads, the in-house system that has dominated online advertising for a decade now. But I kind of fail to see what any of this has to do with Microsoft. :-)