Comment by peterkelly

I understand the downvotes as a knee-jerk reaction, but the thing to understand here is that MS research is largely separate from the product development side.

Spend some time having a look at some of their publications and you'll see what i mean.

Examples

- http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/barrelfish/

- http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/fsharp/