Microsoft Research Special Projects

September 15, 2020

Microsoft is dedicated to working with the community and our customers to continuously improve and tune our platform and products to help defend against the dynamic and sophisticated threat landscape. Earlier this year, we announced that we would replace the…

September 15, 2020

Microsoft (MSFT) recently labelled its Northern Isles experiment a success, as the subsea data center was found to be cost and energy efficient as well as reliable. The tech giant retrieved its submerged data center for analysis from the seafloor…

September 14, 2020

Earlier this summer, marine specialists reeled up a shipping-container-size datacenter coated in algae, barnacles and sea anemones from the seafloor off Scotland’s Orkney Islands. The retrieval launched the final phase of a years-long effort that proved the concept of underwater…

July 13, 2020

Last week, Microsoft unveiled Project Freta, a cloud-based malware detection service (via Bleeping Computer). The project aims to detect malware that previously went undetected on Linux cloud VM images. It’s a free service from Microsoft Research that can detect OS…

July 7, 2020

Microsoft yesterday revealed Project Freta, a new Microsoft Research development that is a virtual-machine (VM) forensics platform. Users will be able to leverage Freta to find malicious software on cloud infrastructure.

March 19, 2019

Dr. Brian LaMacchia from Microsoft Research said that “large-scale quantum computers capable of breaking RSA and ECC public-key cryptography will exist within the next 10 to 15 years. The work that Microsoft Research is doing with DigiCert and Utimaco is…

March 1, 2019

Watch For was inducted into The Garage Wall of Fame. Watch For is an AI system for analyzing live video stream content and surfacing the most interesting parts of a livestream in real-time.