Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT)
– allows you to capture and analyse traces and state transitions to help improve the performance of Windows. I personally am quite interesting in making my tablet boot faster.
Cuil
– new search engine; though Google might be safe (for now). Not sure how it searches but searching for this blog
interestingly does pick it up, but also picks up some obscure links such as my Oxford page
.
AutoCollage 2008
– MSR project which helps celebrate important events and themes. Pick a folder, press a button, and in a few minutes this presents you with a unique memento to print or email to your family and friends.
Moonsus
– cool laptop bags – is it good enough to make the wife forget the stupid bags
? 😉
Full of Kittens
– showing off how to use Silverlight and DeepZoom – if you not sure what you are looking at double click on the image and shift-click to zoom out.
Midori
– a componentized non-Windows Microsoft OS; quite interesting reading
talking about a asynchronous-only architecture that is built for task concurrency and parallel use of local and distributed resources, with a distributed component-based and data-driven application model, and dynamic management of power and other resources.