As many of you know, late last week we sent mail out to Whidbey alpha participants alerting to them to the announcement this week. I was particularly excited to send that mail because we had some real news in the mail about the Express skus - not tons...

Stuart commented on my last post - explaining how in the long run people will adjust to the new way and we'll still get to have our cake (be much more transparent) and eat it (get some bang around milestones like beta release) too. What he said is key...

Eeesh, more than a month since I last posted. I got feedback in the past couple days ago that while the community drops/more frequent builds are nice, what many people (especially non-MSDN subscribers) want is access to any build period. The feedback...