[aarlo]

Frustrating. Hard to evaluate as a biz idea without knowing how valuable these things are - much energy/heat they would actually provide.

Also, I don't see a reason why it couldn't do realtime stuff as well...

And if this was at microsoft research why did microsoft not do something more strategic with this? They can't start running azure nodes in people's houses? Maybe it's because the economics don't work out...

[DasIch]

Microsoft Research is not a R&D department, most of what they do probably isn't used by Microsoft directly.