[chimtim]

MSR has published lots of great papers but it has not yet replicated the success of PARC or Bell Labs by any means. I am not sure why this has happened, but it has been pretty obvious to everyone in the research community. Google, which came in with a research agenda pretty late, has more or less single handedly pushed the boundaries of industrial research in the last decade.

[eli_gottlieb]

Funny: back when I was in school, we always used to say that Google publishes mediocre papers with great marketing.