Google X made headlines this week, but Microsoft has been secretly building everything from social networks to projectors that turn a human body into a touch screen in their labs for years. Many ...

Earlier this year, I covered a new tool out of the somewhat mysterious Microsoft Office Labs called Ribbon Hero. Developed with input from Microsoft's XBox group, the Facebook-based social learning ...

For a while -- in the 2007 to 2009 period, give or take, Labs were all the rage at Microsoft. Office Labs, which used to be one of the more active and closely followed of the Microsoft Labs, seems to ...

Businesses from small startups to large companies and entrepreneurs look set to save significant amounts of time and money when Microsoft’s state of the art IoT & AI Insider Lab launches in April.

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While the multi-touch mice took up most of my visit to the dark corridors of Microsoft Labs, I did get to see some other fun stuff. The first thing I saw was the pressure-sensitive keyboard I wrote up ...

Microsoft has scooped up Mobile Data Labs, the maker of the MileIQ mileage-tracking app. Mobile Data Labs’ smartphone application logs the distance that users drive, storing the data online for ...

At Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, investment in research and development is a reflection of corporate culture. This three-part piece examines the different approaches taken by each of these ...