Something a lot of people forget is that for Microsoft, a research project may culminate in something that's a minor feature to be turned on or off -- a checkbox in a menu buried in a control panel "turn on Chinese Handwriting recognition" or some such, wheras we might think that these things could be entire startups!
Take a look at http://research.microsoft.com/apps/dp/pr/projects.aspx#p=1&#... to see how many of the projects, if successful, will probably just end up as a library with a few API calls, or a series of specifications for hardware manufacturers to go after.
Take a look at http://research.microsoft.com/apps/dp/pr/projects.aspx#p=1&#... to see how many of the projects, if successful, will probably just end up as a library with a few API calls, or a series of specifications for hardware manufacturers to go after.