元器件交易网讯  4月29日消息，据外媒报道，ZDNet称，微软将成立一个新的“特殊项目组”，听起来类似Google X的工作团队，谷歌研究机构致力于自动驾驶汽车和热气球，使互联网遍及世界各地的偏远地区。

　　微软发言人拒绝对此报告评论。

　　微软长期以来一直有一个研究机构，其工作是贡献产品比如Xbox视频游戏控制器的Kinect体感功能。该公司去年投入104亿美元用于研发，微软吹嘘其博士学位的员工比其它任何公司都要多。

　　不过，微软最近的研发集中在能给引入市场的各类项目，以及努力使现存微软软件更好。这并没有收到像谷歌的“月球探测”项目那样的关注度。

　　这有时会让微软官员耿耿于怀。在去年的记者招待会上，微软负责研究策略的高管克瑞格·蒙迪（Craig Mundie）说，公众都围绕着Google X转，“这有时会让人沮丧。”

　　（元器件交易网董蕾 译）

　　外媒原文如下：

　　Microsoft devotes billions of dollars to research projects but doesn’t get the kind of attention Google does for outlandish bets on the future. Now, Microsoft may be trying to flip the script.

　　ZDNet reported Monday that Microsoft formed a new “special projects group,” a skunk works team whose mission sounds similar to that of Google X, the Google research arm working on self-driving cars and balloons that beam Internet connections to remote regions of the globe.

　　A Microsoft spokesman declined to comment on the report Monday.

　　Microsoft has long had a research arm, whose work contributed to products such as the Kinect motion-sensing system for the Xbox videogame console. The company spent $10.4 billion on research and development in its last fiscal year, and Microsoft has boasted that it has more employees with doctorate degrees than any other company.

　　Still, Microsoft’s R&D efforts lately have focused on the kinds of projects it can bring to market or use to make existing Microsoft software better. That hasn’t received the same type of attention as Google’s “moonshot” projects.

　　The attention gap occasionally rankles Microsoft officials. At a briefing with reporters last year, Craig Mundie, a longtime Microsoft executive who at the time was responsible for research and strategy, said “it is frustrating at times” to see the publicity around Google X.