This week we released the C# Express Beta1. Being a tester I can't help but be a bit paranoid, I always worry that I may have missed an obvious problem in a mainline scenario. So far so good. We've been getting some feedback and it's always cool to see what people think about what we've done.

I've been a bit over 5 years at Microsoft; I've always been in the developer division. First in C++ and now in C#. In this time I had never seen so many people sending me links to articles about our product. There've been several articles on the express skus and a lot of people around here are pretty excited about them. Not only because it's nice to meet a goal but because for many of us is the first chance to impact a very big audience. Many of us joined Microsoft in part to have an impact in this world, with the Express skus, the number of potential users is greater than ever.

I've been thinking that if I were in school I would have downloaded all of them, although with the modem I had back then, it would have taken the better part of a school term.

I'm finishing up a bunch of work items before the week is over. I'll be in Mexico next week, in search of blue ski and no rain.