Microsoft Research has released a utility called JoulesMeter that provides information about the power consumed by your PC. GPU-Z and Real Temp give heat and temperature info about the GPU and CPU, respectively.
At MIX10 a touch enabled open source ebook reader for books sourced from Project Gutenberg was demonstrated. Books.Show was built with Microsoft.
Transliteration for 6 Indian languages by Microsoft India. Desktop & Web versions.
Use the Virtual WiFi technology in Windows 7 with Codepplex tool Virtual Router to easily setup and configure a virtual wireless network.
A complete guuid to virtualization, clone discs, VHDs, Windows Virtual PC, Windows XP Mode virtual desktops and ISOs on Windows 7
Use your Xbox 360 Controller as a mouse & control your PC with it.
Open tabs quickly, Download Manager, Greasemonkey Scripts, Syncronize Bookmarks in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) using Add-ons.
Enable SKU edition selector for Windows 7 installation or create SKU edition specifc Windows 7 install discs & upgrade from RC to RTM.
Add elegant looking system perfomance counters, gadgets, see system uptime, beautiful desktop, Bing from the desktop
Links & utilities that should help you in upgrading from Windows XP or Vista to Windows 7
Setting up MySQL server & phpMyAdmin on Windows running IIS 7 & WIndows 7. Works with Vista as well.
Silverlight 3 super power enables develoeprs to port desktop twitter client into the browser with all features!
Download videos from youtube or watch them on the destop, download music songs from last.fm, create last.fm album art wallpapers & track your software usage with these apps.
5 interesting Codeplex applications to control your PC using Twitter, ISO editor & burner for Vista Windows 7, to know computer hardware details, use different wallpapers on different monitors, auto sort files based on file type.
PC Safeguard or Guest Mode disallows users to save files to specific drives & also undos any changes done by them when they log off.
A new website from microsoft New Zealand directing you to the right tools for the right purposes. :) Links to Indian counterpart services included :)
A look at Live Mail’s awesome feed reading capabilities, which enhance its capabilities beyond Mail, Contacts & Calendar, making a truly productive utility.
Panda USB & Autorun Vaccine & Autorun Eater are 2 utilities to protect your PC against autorun.inf viruses that spread through pen drives.
Use Internet Explorer’s search as an alternative to Federated Search. Use it to post directly to Twitter & Friendfeed. manage your bookmarks, back them on the net & sync.
A transparent Notepad, Music Player & Explorer. Aero Notepad, Music Player & theme for Windows Vista.
10 of my favorite & IMHO really helpful registry hacks & tweaks to improvise the working of Windows.
A set of utilities that will enable you to make Windows Vista behave like Windows 7.
Make Vista look and behave like Windows 7. Windows Vista to Windows 7.
A small yet very useful add-on for iTunes on Windows to automatically add songs from folders to iTunes library.
Some cool Open Source projects from Microsoft’s Open Source arm – CodePlex.
2 tiny applications that allow you to create autorun files and also allow you to control their behavior on your computer.
This setup will allow you to speak your commands to your Office 2007. It uses Windows Speech Recog.
Tips on how to start programs with highest privileges bypassing the UAC prompt for those programs.
5 simple softwares that help you create bootable, automated Windows disks, improve digital camera images, take screen shots & edit mp3 tag info.