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    But that figure represents only a small part of the company's overall spending on research and development. "Microsoft as a company will invest US$9.5 billion into innovations to drive cloud computing, new screens and new application types ... It's that R&D effort that gives us products like Windows 7 or some of the innovations you see in our search engine, Bing, or the kind of work we're doing in the new release of Microsoft Office 2010." "US$9.5 billion is a bigger R&D investment than any other company in the world and it reflects our fundamental optimism about what's possible and the need to drive very quickly to this new world of three screens and could computing," he said, referring to Microsoft's new concept of connecting with users via the three screens of a PC, cell phone and television and manage data in the cloud. Full Article at Microsoft Research
    Microsoft as a company will invest US$9.5 billion into innovations to drive cloud computing, new screens and new application types ... It's that R&D effort that gives us products like Windows 7 or some of the innovations you see in our search engine, Bing, or the kind of work we're doing in the new release of Microsoft Office 2010.
    Steve Ballmer – Steve Ballmer SOURCE: Microsoft Research 3 weeks ago
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Microsoft Doubles Down on Links with Japanese Academia
  1. US$9.5 billion is a bigger R&D investment than any other company in the world and it reflects our fundamental optimism about what's possible and the need to drive very quickly to this new world of three screens and could computing
    SOURCE: Microsoft Research 3 weeks ago
  2. We provide funding that doesn't have strings attached
    – Rick Rashid SOURCE: Microsoft Research 3 weeks ago
  3. The idea is to create a mechanism to foster research, support students and build relationships
    – Rick Rashid SOURCE: Microsoft Research 3 weeks ago
  4. The Mount Fuji Plan doubles down on that
    SOURCE: Microsoft Research 3 weeks ago

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