There have been a lot of talk lately about Microsoft losing the battle for new technology and its place as a market leader.

But as it turns out in a bold secret move Microsoft decided to incorporate cutting edge and even futuristic technology into some of its more popular products.

The technology is of course very processor intensive and is not recommend for use on single core machines with less then 1GB of RAM.

One of the best examples of the level of innovation can be seen in Microsoft Outlook.

Apparently it is now possible for Microsoft Outlook to predict what emails you will receive in the next foreseeable future.

Using a 2GHz dual core machine with 2GB of RAM I was actually able to see what emails I would receive in the next 24hr:

With a triple quad core machine I could actually see until next week and with a small Beowulf cluster running Wine I could actually see beyond next month:

BTW, if you really want to reproduce this phenomena simply take your Outlook client machine clock back in time until your server is at least 1 day ahead in time.

No pun intended and 2 much beer...:)