Microsoft announced a new feature in their upcoming desktop operating system (Vista) called the Restart Manager. Applications are getting more and more ‘updates’ these days. It seems like each week one or more of my applications has a patch or a fix and I need to run the fix and then restart the machine. Microsoft has the answer, Restart Manager will save the ‘state’ of the application update it and restart the application without the user having to restart the entire machine. Great work guys! (oh, any idea when you will release Vista?) More here, here, and here.