[kvb]

Tons of stuff has been productized in various forms. .NET generics, for instance, were initially developed in MSR Cambridge. MSR research has contributed to speech recognition, search technologies in Bing, Excel's Flash Fill, SQL Server's Hekaton in-memory architecture, and many other products.

[Someone1234]

Those and thousands more listed here:

https://research.microsoft.com/en-US/about/techtransfer/defa...

Just click the years on the sidebar.