[Michael Earls] It is abundantly frustrating to be keeping up with you guys right now. We out here in the real world do not use Longhorn, do not have access to Longhorn (not in a way we can trust for production), and we cannot even begin to test out these great new technologies until version 1.0 (or 2.0 for those that wish to stay sane). I know there’s probably not a whole lot you can do, but this is a plea to you from someone “in the field”. My job is to work on the architecture team as well as implement solutions for a large-scale commercial website using .NET. I use this stuff all day every day, but I use the 1.1 release bits. Here’s my point, enough with the “this Whidbey, Longhorn, XAML is so cool you should stop whatever it is you are doing and use it”. Small problem, we can’t. Please help us by remembering that we’re still using the release bits, not the latest technology.

[Harry Pierson] Mike, I can’t speak for Scoble or any of the other MS bloggers, but I’m sorry that it’s been hard to keep up.

The funny part: I work on the Indigo team and was finding it hard to keep up with all the news of XAML, MSBuild, etc. from PDC (call it “webblog overload”). While I find all the new stuff that’s in the pipeline interesting (and pretty damn cool actually), the fact is that it’s still in development and will continuously evolve and change until its release. Not to mention that I can’t seem to find the time to even attempt a XAML app at this point.