Microsoft Research is still one of the most influential and visible industry research labs in Computer Science, publishing more great papers than most top unive

Microsoft Research is still one of the most influential and visible industry research labs in Computer Science, publishing more great papers than most top universities. http://research.microsoft.com/apps/catalog/default.aspx?t=publications http://research.microsoft.com/apps/catalog/default.aspx?t=pu... However, this work rarely seems to make it into their consumer products. I suspect it's mostly an issue of the organisational structure of Microsoft, rather than the type of research, which makes it difficult to jump the gap from research to products.