Faster results. Better decisions. Turning insight into action. Those are the capabilities Microsoft hopes to deliver Nov. 7 with the launch of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006, and key innovations in those products stem from contributions by Microsoft Research.

When working together, the new products are intended to enable customers and partners to gain deeper business insight and to take appropriate action throughout their business and software-development processes. The collaborations between Microsoft Research and the teams that produced these products are the latest in a long history of technology transfers from research labs within Microsoft into the products the company ships.

“Our research labs and efforts across the company have created a large portfolio of innovative technologies that extend the reach of personal computing today, with much of it going into Microsoft products,” says Rick Rashid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research. “Our researchers are here to push ahead the state of the art in computer science. When we have great ideas that work, we strive to move those ideas and technologies into Microsoft products as rapidly as possible.”