Job Questions > What's one of the projects you worked on at > Microsoft > Phillip's Answer

One of the projects I worked on at Microsoft was a project called Redshark. We prototyped (using Java!) a number of interesting ideas in the Windows User Experience. One of the ideas was a simpler experience for Windows and browser apps that would extend the simplicity of the the browser model to native applications. (There was no need to think about manually starting and exiting applications, or explicitly saving files.) We also worked on a unified, semi-structured store that would simplify application development and support efficient fulltext and natural language queries.