Like it or not, several technologies we use today were developed by Microsoft Research.
But mostly, there are lots of very promising new concepts coming out.

This first video taken from Microsoft College Tour 2009 shows theme supported text completion, content clustering and eye tracking.

Second part of the same presentation has gestures and a transparent glass display concept.

But hold your horses! That display probably isn’t active… I’m guessing it’s a special glass that while being transparent, is also capable of retaining images from a projector, which is hidden somewhere.

Still, with further research, it seems this could be possible with OLED screens.

Anyways, interesting ideas!

Source: Gizmodo