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5 Cool Downloads You Can Try Today

Microsoft Research labs worldwide regularly make interesting tools, software, and presentations available for free download to the greater research community, software developers, and technology enthusiasts. Try one we’ve collected here, or check out our other cool downloads.
AutoCollage 2008

AutoCollage 2008
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/6f9325c6-cf4f-4408-8cab-8b1f0cabe0bb/

AutoCollage is an application for automatically creating collages from your images. Pick a folder, press a button, and, in mere moments, AutoCollage presents you with a unique memento to print or to e-mail to your family and friends. Learn more...

Microsoft Image Composite Editor
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/730cd6bb-6450-4e66-8101-a94e71cb0779/

Image Composite Editor
Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic-image stitcher. The application takes a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location and creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all the source images at full resolution. The stitched panorama can be saved in a wide variety of formats, from common formats such as JPEG and TIFF to multiresolution, tiled formats such as HD View and Silverlight Deep Zoom. Learn more...

InkSeine

InkSeine
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/8e67ebaf-928b-4fa3-87e6-197af00c972a/

InkSeine is a prototype inking application for Tablet PCs and UMPC devices that offers the unique ability to search for objects directly from ink without transcribing queries to a search box. InkSeine makes it easy to get to your information without having to use a file system or to switch to a separate search application. Learn more...

Infer.Net
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/0382e633-8702-4130-a2c5-14004be93896/default.aspx


Infer.NET
Infer.NET is a .NET framework for machine learning. It provides state-of-the-art message-passing algorithms and statistical routines for performing Bayesian inference. It has applications in a wide variety of domains, including information retrieval, bioinformatics, epidemiology, vision, and many others. Learn more...

PEX
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/d2279651-851f-4d7a-bf05-16fd7eb26559/default.aspx

Pex

Pex finds interesting input-output values of your methods that you can save as a small test suite with high code coverage. Pex performs a systematic analysis, hunting for boundary conditions, exceptions, and assertion failures that you can debug right away. Pex enables parameterized unit testing, an extension of unit testing that reduces test-maintenance costs. Learn more...

thanks for posting :)

Thanks! Sure wish it was permenent and not just 30 days, but I'm still excited to try it out!

Thanks! Sure wish it was permenent and not just 30 days, but I'm still excited to try it out!
Does a 30-day trial even belong in the Freebie forum? I wouldn't think so or we'll get buried by all of the trial copies of a gazillion applications.

thanks

thanks

thanks for posting :)

Can I ask how you won all that stuff??

Thanks! Been looking for a program like ICE for a project I need done on Monday and this should do it!

Can I ask how you won all that stuff?? IN the contest and sweepstakes section of the forums.

finally, something free from microsoft.