- Shared View from Microsoft – a fast, easy way to share documents and screen views with small groups anytime, anywhere and works across physical boundaries, through firewalls, and down to the smallest details.
- Switcher – gets Expose (from Mac) on Windows very cool! (you need Vista + Aero)
- VS.NET 2008 SP1 likely to come later this year adds a lot of new stuff.
- SMS things (only if you are in the US)
- SMS411 – helps you send SMS to phone's on specific carriers in the US.
- Teleflip – goes a step further and automatically figures out the carrier (also only for the US).
- TFS Admin – seems to do a few interesting things if you admin TFS (I have not used it first hand so can't say).
- Many Books – offers thoughts of free eBooks in many formats for your PDA, iPod, or eBook reader.
- Hadoop – is a framework for running applications on large clusters built of commodity hardware; it is effectively a grid application which under the covers uses a DFS and can supposedly scale up to reliably store and process petabytes.
- Invisible Computing – research prototype for making small devices part of the seamless computing world. It consists of compact middleware for constructing embedded web services applications and a small component based Real-Time Operating System with TCP/IP networking to make middleware run straight on the metal on several embedded processors.
- Chumby – seems interesting concept – but I get all that on my phone and will it work in the uk?
- Delta Copy - robocopy on steroids; this on copies the sectors that have changed. So if you have a 2 gb PST file – only the new sectors are copied instead of the whole file. Note – there as issues with Vista!
- pptPlex – allows you to present PowerPoint using a zoomable canvas instead of slides – quite interesting.
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