http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/2009/nov09/11-2...

But Microsoft Research might be more relevant:

"Located in Mountain View, California, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley was founded in August 2001 and now employs about 75 researchers. Our research work focuses on distributed computing and includes privacy, security, protocols, fault-tolerance, large-scale systems, concurrency, computer architecture, Internet search and services, and related theory."

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/siliconvalley/defau...