Microsoft has launched a new initiative: DevLabs. DevLabs consists of some developer-related projects and prototypes that might or might not make it into full products. The project I really like is Small Basic, a very simple programming language and IDE (if you can call it that) that takes me back to when I was younger and learned to program in BASIC on a Commodore 64. The language is very simple and imperative (not object-oriented!), which makes it ideal to teach kids to program. It's also a nice example of a WPF-application and its intellisense and auto-help system are very cool.