PPT Slide
- Microsoft invests $5B (ᡇ% of revenues) in R&D – extraordinary!
- Microsoft Research – the part of Microsoft’s R&D enterprise that’s looking more than 18 months ahead – is about 600 heads, ɝ% of this 15% (also extraordinary!)
- But don’t confuse Microsoft’s R&D expenditures – much less the rest of the industry’s R&D expenditures – with an investment in fundamental research!