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Earlier this year, we told you how you could hide your Twitter addiction at work using the SpreadTweet application which hides a Twitter interface in a client that looks just like Microsoft Excel. Recently, we uncovered yet another sneaky way to tweet at work, this time thanks to MakeUseOf. The…

Have you heard the term “crowdsourcing?” It means taking a task that was traditionally performed by an employee or contractor and farming it out to an undefined, large group of people – a group which is often found online. Microsoft has turned this trend into Task Market, a place where a business…

This morning, Rick Rashid, Senior VP for Microsoft Research kicked off our annual TechFest; an event here on the Redmond campus that celebrates the genius of Microsoft Research's worldwide labs by presenting more than 150 demos and 24 lectures. Think of it as a kind of exhibition of cutting-edge…