Microsoft Research inventions are wacky and useful
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One that's perhaps a bit of both: The Flying Bike would let users ride a stationary bike that is integrated into a video game.
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OpenOffice.org's extensive use of floating windows puts some of the most-used editing tools at your fingertips.
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You can find some stock ideas in unlikely places.
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Our colleagues over at PC World gathered up a list of products that each of them simply couldn't imagine going through daily life without. Some are relatively obvious, such as Windows 2003,  TiVO and Skype, and others a bit more odd, such as Cyber Systems' RoboForm. Heh?
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InfoWorld - Microsoft Research's eScience group is helping scientific researchers use database and online sharing tools in ways they might not have imagined, and sharing those experiences with Microsoft product groups that can tweak their software for easier use by the scientific community.
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Ingenious hacks abound for the game console's input device. Plus: The
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Keeping up with newly issued patents for search-related technology can help you spot emerging trends and potentially new competitors to the existing major web search players.
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The Web search company's latest tool is further proof of its genius.
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Microsoft researchers from the software giant's labs around the world gathered on Tuesday to conspire on innovations intended to change the world.
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The search giant's new tool lets budding inventors browse 200 years' worth of intellectual property on file with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In Monkey Bites.
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EverNote offers a slick way to collect and retrieve random information on multiple devices.
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Microsoft engineer shows off a new "MinWin" kernel that takes up a fraction of the space of the traditional OS.
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Users are finding lots of inventive ways to lose precious files, say data recovery experts.
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Microsoft researchers talk about a variety of location-based tools they are developing.
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The modern PC is a marvel, a machine that lets an ordinary person with little training create a document, check its spelling, dress it up with graphics, send it electronically to someone across the globe - and then save it accidentally into some dark
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For years, programmers at Microsoft Corp. and elsewhere have worked to make it easier for devices like cell phones and personal digital assistants to work instantly and easily with computers.
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Thanks to some new developments in document standards, Office 2007 users will be able to share files with open-source office apps and online productivity suites from the likes of Zoho and Google. In Monkey Bites.