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Microsoft Research: Also Fumbling the Future

in News on October 29, 2008 at 3:49 pm PT

Success, as the old adage claims, has many fathers–even Apple’s success, much as CEO Steve Jobs would like to think otherwise. So it’s interesting to hear that among the progenitors of Apple’s current renown is Rick Rashid, head of Microsoft Research. Speaking at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles today, Rashid talked up his Apple street cred, reminding attendees that he helped develop Mach, the operating system microkernel that’s now the foundation of Mac OS X.

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The reason you do basic research is for survival. You (provide) the agility to change when change is critical. That’s true for society and humanity more broadly, like if something really bad happens–war, famine, Google–you can respond.”

–Rich Rashid, a founding member of Microsoft Research, adds Google to the Seven Plagues of Revelation.