In about 12 minutes my ride is showing up to take me to the airport. On Friday I worked until about midnight on my demo that is part of Jim Allchin's keynote. Last PDC Don & I did the whole "Lap Around Longhorn" thing, and this year we set out to try and out do it... we have a lot more content, but actually a bit less time. It's hard to boil things down to be short enough, but still get the key messages across. In addition, we are having a couple extra people part of the song and dance, which makes everything a bit more "fun"!

This PDC is going to be amazing. I can't wait to get updated bits in their hands, see people's reactions to the new C# and VB features around query, and everything else we are announcing (Day 2 of the PDC will be AWESOME!).

I'm a little frustrated that we weren't able to deliver all the bits that I wanted to, but they will get out as soon as they are ready. All the teams involved with developers (Visual Studio, WinFX, Vista) have really embraced the CTP notion, which means we should be able to get real working bits to the customers sooner.

Sorry for the long delay in posting, but it's been *way* too much fun after coming back from Italy to get everything together for my talk and the keynote demo.