Speed Launch was created by two Microsoft employees, Matt Dyor, a patent attorney, and David Craig, a support escalation engineer. Speed Launch is a project they worked on together completely in their own free time.rnrnSpeed Launch is an application launcher that extends the functionality and usability of Microsoft Windows. With Speed Launch, users can select their own words to open frequently used websites, documents, and applications. The most compelling feature of Speed launch is the use of a drag and drop interaction model to make this advanced functionality more intuitive to novice computer users.rnrnSpeed Launch comes preloaded with a few useful functions. For example, to search Wikipedia just type “Wikipedia Search” and hit enter. Next, type what you want to search for in the new window and hit enter. Speed Launch will open the related Wikipedia page.