Microsoft's TechFest tinged with 'green'

InternetNews | at | by Mike

Microsoft researchers generally trot out their coolest projects to show off at the annual Microsoft Research TechFest, a sort of super science fair for the company's research division.

This year is no different. The company's researchers showed off some 40 projects out of hundreds of ongoing experiments.

For example, company researchers showed off new and evolving developments and concepts such as a virtual office receptionist. In one scenario, the receptionist could carry on a brief voice conversation with an employee and fetch a campus shuttle bus for transportation.