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frandroid on Aug 19, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Death of Corporate Research Labs

MS Research does cool stuff but MS is comically bad at turning the results into successful commercial products. By all rights, in terms of research results and focus, the iPad should have been a Microsoft product. Microsoft remains good at making faster horses...

chris11 on Aug 19, 2020 [–]

MSR was doing work with digital mapping in the late 90s, but Google still beat them to market in 2005.

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