Steve Clayton has a great post on Microsoft R & D at the end of which, he asks
"Does that herald the future of how more Microsoft technologies come to the mass market?"
I think it probably does. Agile is the key here; and by that I mean the ability to move quickly in a given market. To do that one needs a wide and deep knowledge of that market; clearly Microsoft cannot have that sort of knowledge in every market they are working in. Therefore, it makes a lot of sense for Microsoft to invent and to innovate and then to license the technology to companies with that knowledge to bring the technology to market.
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