[rch]

This era of open source from MS is great, but my reaction is always "OK, here's the Microsoft version of something I've been using for a couple of years already".

I'd like to see the Spanner+Cyc GIS-capable global distributed real-time graph engine with FPGA accelerated OLAP support MS Research is probably sitting on, because we can almost / pretty-much hack that together with OSS now.