Just noticed Soma’s post on DevLabs. He introduces DevLabs as a place to share innovations happening in the developer division within Microsoft. This looks like a sibling to already existing Office Labs and  Live Labs. Pretty exciting. Microsoft has a lot of such experimental projects going on in various product groups and this should be a great way to introduce these to the people outside of Microsoft and get their feedback.

We have a research event at Microsoft each year called the TechFest where people in product groups get a sneak peek in the world of MS Research. It’s very exciting and inspirational event for people like us who work mostly on end user products. I have always wondered why we couldn’t allow people outside of MS to one of these conferences under NDA. Now that we have Microsoft Labs, we have a platform to share these experiments with the world. Way to go! All the best MS labs!!!