Microsoft Research Fights Critics

coondoggie writes to tell us Network World is taking a look at why Microsoft Research has to fight so hard against critics. From the article: "When the word 'innovation' is tossed about many may look down their nose at the company sitting on top of the high-tech industry — Microsoft. [...] Microsoft Research incubates not only futuristic ideas but young minds, having hired 700 interns worldwide this year including 250 computer science PhD candidates in Redmond alone, which is roughly 21% of all the computer science PhD candidates in the United States."

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hypocrites

[justkarl]

I want to know why so many Slashdotters behold XBOX as a major technological innovation but shun Microsoft when Windows is mentioned. Here's one that uses Windows at home and loves it.

Re:Not a Huge Surprise

[russ1337]

Sociologists ??? You want them to hire Tom Cruise?

Sequence

[overshoot]

First they ignore you,
then they fight you,

Hmmm -- does this mean we're at Stage Two?

interview with ex-ms-employees

[AlgorithMan]

I saw an interview with 2 or 3 ex-ms-employees
they saied ms works like this:

- they hire young, clever coders
- use them up until they're burned out
- fire them

Re:"research"

[Wovel]

The moderation on this thread has certainly been terrible. Every post supporting MSR with inisghtful facts is markd as flame bait and every post blindly bashing MS gets an Informative. *Prepares to go to -1*