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That's not all. There are other parts being shutdown too - Robotics apparently https://twitter.com/AshleyFen/status/513392391467048960 https://twitter.com/Ashle

• com2kid 12y ago
  Well that's the second time then! I was working with the Robotics team when they got seriously downsized a few years ago. (This might be a different robotics team, who knows!)
• Encosia 12y ago
  Still, probably proportionally less layoffs in MSR than the rest of the company overall during these cuts. The insinuation was that Microsoft is shuttering Research entirely, which is very far from true.
  • dsuth 12y ago
    I think the insinuation is the Microsoft Research is beholden to business drivers, and therefore not truly 'free, blue-sky' research. That doesn't seem unfair, given the layoffs.
    • Encosia 12y ago
      I read the comment "what about them?" along with the poorly headlined link, as insinuating that Microsoft Research was being shut down. If someone thought that Silicon Valley was their main lab or didn't know either way, that headline would easily give the mistaken impression that Microsoft was canning the whole endeavor. My apologies to rasz_pl if I mistook his/her meaning. For what it's worth, MSR historically hasn't been beholden to find commercial applications for their work. If anything, it's usually disappointing how much really cool stuff they come up with that isn't ever productized in an accessible way.