Microsoft in search of breakthroughs
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Microsoft opened part of its Silicon Valley research operation to share a bit of the technologies and explorations its making in search of the next big hit. Rick Rashid, who's been in charge of Microsoft Research since it was founded in 1991, said research is the key to the company's success in good times and bad.
"The value of research? Microsoft is still here," said Rashid, a Microsoft senior vice president. "A lot of the companies that were around in the 1990s are not here anymore, but we are because we've been able to evolve and change."