Every year, design students from around the world come to the Microsoft Research Design Expo to show off their work and share ideas with others in their field. Roughly two … Read more »
When Colleen Estrada first used Xim to share pictures of her Hawaii vacation over her phone, her sister responded with “Finally, you’ve done something useful!” Perhaps that’s the closest thing … Read more »
Nearly everything about Brian Townsend’s job reads like science fiction. Put simply: He works in a room nicknamed “The Vault,” and he creates photographs of products that don’t yet exist. … Read more »
TV sports pundits tend to focus on the predictions they get right, while sweeping past blunders under the rug. But when I asked NFL draft expert and football analyst Daniel … Read more »
I stood in a cul-de-sac in Reading, a suburb 30 minutes west of London, preparing for one of the most unique journeys of my life. “Journey” may seem a strong … Read more »
Children love bubbles and water fountains. Most adults tend to find more exhilaration from an incoming text. Sometimes, however, there’s that rarest of souls, a grown-up who manages to find … Read more »
If Microsoft designers have groupies, then they look like the chipper young guys who pop out from around corners at Studio B to greet Stevie Bathiche. Tagging behind Bathiche, distinguished … Read more »
It’s Halloween today, which for many of us means a day filled with wacky costumes and free candy. But for a group of Microsoft researchers, it’s a unique opportunity to … Read more »
Did you ever hear the one about the five Microsoft engineers and the writer who walked into a Gold’s Gym? No? Well, that’s probably because the results were nowhere near … Read more »
Microsoft is debuting a dedicated experience on Bing that aims to make it easier for voters to decide how to fill out their election ballots this fall
