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Events | 2007.03.06

Microsoft links technology, common tools (AP)

The Microsoft Corp. experimental \'Text-It-Notes\' device, which lets people scribble a message on a sticky note and then convert and send it as a text or SMS message to one of several preset mobile phones, is shown on display Tuesday, March 6, 2007 at Microsoft Research\'s annual Techfest in Redmond, Wash. Techfest is Microsoft\'s annual exhibition of experimental and emerging technology generally not currently available to the public that is produced by Microsoft researchers worldwide. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) AP - Sticky notes. White boards. Videogame consoles. For a Microsoft Corp. event designed to show off cutting-edge software inventions, there are a lot of familiar tools on display. That\'s intentional, said Rico Malvar, the managing director of Microsoft Research\'s Redmond lab, at TechFest, the annual gathering of the software maker\'s international research department Tuesday.


 

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