Wild Card - we do cool stuff

Too often I’ve heard Microsoft criticised for not innovating and it does get my back up at times. When I read about stuff like Wild Card from MS Research it just makes you want to shout it from the rooftops – “look, we can do cool stuff too”. We do some less cool stuff too but just for this afternoon I’m going to bask in the glow of this forthcoming technology.

What is Wild Card: software to allow quick searches from mobile devices.

“A search for 'c rice', for instance, will give 'Condoleezza Rice' as the top result, and 'ar s*w m' will result in 'Arnold Schwarzenegger Movies'”

Cool eh? Check out some of Bo’s other papers for stuff that is waaaaay over my head