Overview
There are laboratories around the world in Bangalore, Beijing, Cambridge, Mountain View, Redmond, and San Francisco.

Microsoft Research Redmond was founded on the Microsoft Redmond campus in 1991 working in buildings 112 and 113.
Microsoft Research Cambridge was founded in 1997 by Roger Needham and now numbers over 100 employees. It maintains close ties to the University of Cambridge.
Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) was founded in Beijing in November 1998. Advanced Technology Center was initially a group of MSRA until it became an independent R&D group of Microsoft.
Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, located in Mountain View, California, was founded in August 2001. In January 2006, the Silicon Valley lab merged with Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center (BARC) in San Francisco.
Microsoft Research India was established in January 2005 in Bangalore.
Microsoft Cairo Innovation Center was established in 2006 in Egypt. Research projects

Microsoft European Science Award