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By Mary Jo Foley
There’s a new Special Projects Group in Microsoft Research (MSR) that is tasked with working on “disruptive technologies that could benefit the company and society.”
That unit sounds a lot like Google X from its description. And from what one contact of mine says, that similarity is intentional.