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HomeOS aims to be a PC-like abstraction, where connecting a new light or ceiling fan to the system is as simple as plugging a new mouse into your computer.

In a handful of real homes, Microsoft is testing a prototype of a home-automation operating system on which its researchers have been working for several years.

To simplify the management and development of smart-home applications, Microsoft Research has developed HomeOS.

The single sign-on protocols that allow users to sign in to a range of websites with their Google or Facebook accounts suffer from security flaws that could allow scammers to log in as somebody else,…

Windows Server 8 – along with the suite of associated 2012-ish server applications – is nothing short of a complete redefinition of the server landscape.

It sounds like the ultimate vanity project, but a camera that records your every moment could make you happier and healthier.

Tan and his team are experimenting with contact lenses. With microchips and computer circuits, researchers are using tears to gain an easier reading of blood-sugar levels, particularly important for diabetics.

Keynote by Ivan Tashev from Microsoft Research at ITA 2012 on Optimizing Kinect: Audio and Acoustics

For contributions to multiresolution signal processing and multimedia signal compression and standards.

The wireless signal that the Microsoft group uses to carry multigigabits of data per second between racks isn’t the familiar Wi-Fi of coffee-shop hot spots. That type of signal spreads out over an entire room…