It is my understanding that it was owned by Bill Gates not Microsoft. Bill Gates sold it earlier this year to a Chinese Company http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/

It is my understanding that it was owned by Bill Gates not Microsoft. Bill Gates sold it earlier this year to a Chinese Company http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d6fbcb88-c126-11e5-846f-79b0e3d20eaf.html http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d6fbcb88-c126-11e5-846f-79b0e... (paywall), The Chinese company has structured a deal with Getty to take over licensing outside of China. However, having access to world class photography is great, but the images that (probably) will be the most interesting for Microsoft to recognize will be selfies, and other "crowd" created amateur photography and possibly memes. I personally would think it to be cool to see if the bot could traverse the Getty collection and see if it could recognize the photographer of an image it had not seen before. Why yes, this is Leibovitz.