Several months have passed since my last blog posting.  A lot has happened in my life in that time, including a new baby (Oren Nathaniel Gershony, born on the fourth of July), parental leave, and now a new job.  I recently accepted a job offer from Google, Kirkland.  My last day at Microsoft is Friday October 19th.

As everyone noticed, we never shipped the Commerce Extensions CTP.  Since my MIX talk, Microsoft announced the Commerce Server product roadmap.  Ryan Donovan’s blog is the best place to learn more about this: http://blogs.msdn.com/rdonovan/archive/2007/08/08/in-depth-commerce-server-product-roadmap-information-desk-program-announcement.aspx.  Please monitor http://blogs.msdn.com/commerce for the latest on Commerce Server.

The Commerce Extensions technology will eventually manifest itself in the roadmap, but is available for demonstration purposes now!  We have a site on winisp that is hosting the bits that we demoed at MIX:  http://catalogsample.members.winisp.net/ .  I’m still super excited about the future of this work, and am confident that this will be an incredible e-commerce platform.