Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Microsoft MSR NExT research

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How Microsoft Plans to Beat Google and Facebook to the Next Tech Breakthrough - Bloomberg 
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"To break down the walls between its research group and the rest of the company, Microsoft reassigned about half of its more than 1,000 research staff in September 2014 to a new group called MSR NExT. Its focus is on projects with greater impact to the company rather than pure research. Meanwhile, the other half of Microsoft Research is getting pushed to find more significant ways it can contribute to the company's products."


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