[timthelion]

It is strange to read this, remembering how Microsoft has been lambasted time and again for doing so many interesting things with Microsoft Research and hardly ever taking any of them to the product stage. Is Microsoft unique in it's too much R and not enough D approach?

[munin]

MSR has been heavily prioritized onto doing products and commercialization, stimulated by a re-org. In my research area, there have been a number (more than ten) of high profile departures of researchers from MSR, frequently going back to academia, which is madness.

[agumonkey]

I feel Microsoft accelerated the D phase recently. F#, I remember some typed OS after Midori being mentionned.