There are a lot of people in Microsoft with a wide range of skills. Give MS employees 1 day a week to work on there own special projects and create a "Microsof

There are a lot of people in Microsoft with a wide range of skills. Give MS employees 1 day a week to work on there own special projects and create a "Microsoft labs" page and they would get some great stuff created. But I believe that MS likes to have ideas flow from the top instead of from the bottom/middle. People at the top (likely) want to protect there position, so they do not allow people to "stand out" in any way.