TechFest: Inside Microsoft's science fair

Microsoft's glimpse of the future

In a video, Microsoft takes many of the technologies from its research labs and imagines what they might look like 10 years from now, working together.
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February 27, 2009 10:35 AM PST

Making the rounds at TechFest

CNET News' Ina Fried is winding her way through Microsoft's internal science fair in Redmond. Here's what the first few booths had in store.
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February 24, 2009 12:36 PM PST

Photos: Tinkering around at TechFest 2009

Microsoft's internal science fair shows employees (and press) what the company's research teams are working on in their labs.
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February 24, 2009 5:32 PM PST

Search still on Microsoft's research radar

Microsoft shows several projects at TechFest aimed at giving the company a better chance at competing with Google.
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February 24, 2009 4:31 PM PST

Microsoft Research: 'An investment in survival'

Kicking off this year's Tech Fest, research chief Rick Rashid talks about how the unit is Microsoft's play to be a significant company for the long term.
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February 24, 2009 10:03 AM PST

Microsoft hits TechFest high notes

A day ahead of this year's internal science fair, Microsoft shows off some projects that made it into product form, including the music program Songsmith.
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February 23, 2009 9:41 PM PST

Microsoft aims to build a better thesaurus

Borrowing techniques used in machine translation, a team of researchers in Redmond believes it has found a better way to serve up synonyms.
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February 20, 2009 4:00 AM PST