Inside Microsoft?s Cauldron Of Ideas: From Kinect, Bing And Killing The Blue Screen Of Death, To Code That Can Learn, Pixels You Can Hold And Drugs Compiled From DNA

Far from being chained to the product pipeline, Microsoft's research labs operate more like university research departments -- with a remit to be the "farseeing eyes" of the company, says Andrew Blake, lab director of Microsoft Research Cambridge. Projects bubbling away in this "cauldron of ideas" may never end up on a shelf -- giving Redmond's researchers the freedom to think way beyond the box.

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