Todays keynote is shorter and is delivered by Rick Rashid on Microsoft Research. 1990 Microsoft was a small company with only 5 000 employees, but still choosed to begin a basic research department which was unusual for such a small company in that time. Most Microsoft products that exists today have parts coming from Microsoft Research. During the 17 years that Research have existed, Rick Rashid has been responsible for it and they have had the same mission statement through all these years and grown to 850 persons today. Microsoft Research is the single strongest research organisation that exists in the world and has a major impact on the computer sciense field.

During the keynote they showed different parts of their research work they have done. One of the most intereseting parts was the work done on HIV, where they've used the computer sciense knowledge to undestand how cells and the HIV virus work. It was facinating to see how the different research areas have started to influence each other and learning from each other.

There was more nice demos of the work that they are working on, among them, Boku a programming language for kids and a cool view of how they can make things pop out (yes, pop out) from the Surface (Screen).