Wow, MSR got some really good people out of this. Yahoo! have had a great research lab, but with the recent layoffs and now this it looks like it's on the way o

Wow, MSR got some really good people out of this. Yahoo! have had a great research lab, but with the recent layoffs and now this it looks like it's on the way out. MS has shown they commercialise products out of MSR (e.g. the Kinect) so this could have a big impact in a few years.