SAN DIEGO--Previewing its lab technology this week, Microsoft researchers trotted out a new browser for the cell phone and an Xbox game that asks kids to be programmers. Microsoft researchers showed ...

You may have heard of Microsoft's Live Labs, Office Labs, adCenter Labs. Get ready to add one more Microsoft incubator that is designed to speed up the delivery of Microsoft-created innovations to ...

The Office Labs group at Microsoft launched the Office Labs web site, which consists of software experiments related to Microsoft Office that will probably never ship and aren't even considered to be ...

MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee is soon getting a cutting-edge lab. Microsoft is bringing it to the city, and it promises to help local businesses. Only two other places in the country have one. Microsoft has ...

Microsoft has unveiled a new research initiative designed to “discover, improve, and amplify” developer work and well-being. Announced at Microsoft’s annual developer-focused Build conference, the new ...

Reader Dennis turns us on to another really cool test product from Microsoft’s labs called Photosynth. It’s a bit of software that takes a huge collection of photos of a single place—say all the ...

Microsoft’s acquisition of ReFirm Labs will allow device builders and customers to discover, protect and assess device risk at the firmware and network levels as well as patch devices via a cloud ...

IoT operations just got a little more secure. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. ReFirm Labs handles firmware analysis and security.

Microsoft has acquired ReFirm Labs of Fulton, Md., the company behind the Binwalk open-source software that identifies hidden security vulnerabilities in firmware, the software programmed into the ...

Google X made headlines this week, but Microsoft has been secretly building everything from social networks to projectors that turn a human body into a touch screen in their labs for years. Many ...