[greggarious]

>MSR is a separate organization.

That's putting it mildly. They're separate silos and rarely collaborate. Once research seems "meaty" enough it gets thrown over the wall.

[oldmanhorton]

I work at Microsoft and we have someone from MSR collaborating with my team daily. I am sure some researchers silo themselves and some engineering teams silo themselves, but I don't think its an accurate blanket statement.

[seanmcdirmid]

This isn't true, at least for that part of the company. Bing has always had a close connection to a certain part of MSR (e.g. see Harry Shrum).

[tome]

*Harry Shum

[seanmcdirmid]

Oops, sorry about that. I'm not really used to that kind of romanization.

[tome]

Interesting. In other romanizations the name has an "r"?