Staffpad is incredible but it's not brand new or developed by Microsoft. Hanselminutes (Scott Hanselman) did an excellent interview with the engineer who create

Staffpad is incredible but it's not brand new or developed by Microsoft. Hanselminutes (Scott Hanselman) did an excellent interview with the engineer who created it a few months back, definitely worth listening to if this piqued your interest. Thoroughly covers how it was conceived and coded in C#/C++, with comments about the relationship to Microsoft: http://www.hanselminutes.com/473/developing-staffpad-a-new-class-of-music-notation-application-with-dr-matthew-tesch http://www.hanselminutes.com/473/developing-staffpad-a-new-c...