Microsoft's Garage helps to incubate grass roots ideas from across the company - today, one of the best ideas I have seen is available as a free download. Read more on this Next at Microsoft exclusive.

Microsoft's mashup of the holodeck and a concept car gives a more tangible sense of where technology could take us.

A talk by Rick Rashid, Microsoft's Chief Research Officer has been getting some attention this week due to a remarkable demo he gave of speech translation technology from Microsoft Research.  

Engadget called it jawdropping - we call it KinectFusion.

In an exclusive chat with Bill Gates we talk about Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Surface.