Inside Microsoft’s Cauldron of Ideas: From Kinect, Bing and Killing the Blue Screen of Death, to Code That Can Learn, Pixels You Can Hold and Drugs Compiled from DNA

Microsoft Research labs are “the far-seeing eyes of Microsoft,” says Andrew Blake, lab director of Microsoft Research Cambridge. “Our job is to be a cauldron bubbling with ideas and the ideas are there to be plucked out at the right moment."