Meet Microsoft, the world's best kept R&D secret

As far as 99.9 percent of the world population is concerned, Microsoft is a stodgy, old-guard technology company. Its bottom line is fully leveraged against PC operating systems and business softwarehardly the building blocks of a future-thinking portfolio, right? But scratch that cold, conservative, pedestrian surface, and youll find a Microsoft thats a veritable hotbed of cutting-edge innovation. Indeed, the company doesn't just loosen its purse strings when it comes to research and developmen...