Microsoft Research is not Microsoft; it's like the Honors College at a large state university a small enclave of excellence set against a larger backdrop of med

Microsoft Research is not Microsoft; it's like the Honors College at a large state university a small enclave of excellence set against a larger backdrop of mediocrity. The larger culture at Microsoft is still operating under the assumptions of the 1990's when they were large and in charge. They have been coasting on the monopoly for some time. But, they are not the hundred year computing culture; by their very nature they can't be.