Microsoft Corporation
April 5, 2008
Our Values
As a company, and as individuals, we value integrity, honesty, openness, personal excellence, constructive self-criticism, continual self-improvement, and mutual respect. We are committed to our customers and partners and have a passion for technology. We take on big challenges, and pride ourselves on seeing them through. We hold ourselves accountable to our customers, shareholders, partners, and employees by honoring our commitments, providing results, and striving for the highest quality.
Building a Global Think Tank
- Microsoft Research Cambridge. Established in 1997, Microsoft Research Cambridge in England was Microsoft’s first research laboratory to be established outside the United States. Today the lab’s researchers, mostly from Europe, are focused on the following areas of research: programming languages, security, information retrieval, machine learning, computer vision, operating systems and networking.
- Microsoft Research Asia. The Asia lab, located in Beijing, was founded in 1998 and is Microsoft’s basic research facility in the Asia-Pacific region. Researchers in the Asia lab focus on the following six areas: next-generation user interface, next-generation multimedia, digital entertainment, wireless and networking, Web search and data mining, and theory studies.
- Microsoft Research Silicon Valley. The Silicon Valley lab was established in August 2001 on the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, Calif. The lab’s research work focuses on distributed computing and includes Web search, datacenter-scale computing, concurrent programming, computer architecture, security and privacy.
- Microsoft Research India. The India lab opened in 2005 and is located in Bangalore. Researchers in this lab focus on multilingual systems, technologies for emerging markets, digital geographics, cryptography and security, mobility, networking and systems, rigorous software engineering, and algorithms.
- Microsoft Research New England. The New England lab is scheduled to open in July 2008 in Cambridge, Mass. The lab will pursue new interdisciplinary areas of research that bring together core computer scientists and social scientists to better understand, model and enable the computing and online experiences of the future.
