Tools and Services for Research Collaboration 

Category: Microsoft Research
Submitted Date: 9/10/2009

The Microsoft Research goal is to accelerate research by collaborating with academic communities to create open tools and services based on Microsoft platforms and productivity software. By building open software solutions in collaboration with the research community, they help scientists spend more time on their research and less time on IT issues.

The Microsoft Research site has several tools and services that are available for your use.  For example:

In addition to the above here are some of the Tools and Services that are available from Microsoft Research.