Whidbey leak late last week- June 29, 2004 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 of detail and not lots of advance notice but at least we made an effort to give the early participants a heads up. Lastly we asked people to keep it quiet until the announcement. As Robert McLaws talks about, the news was very...http://blogs.msdn.com/markcli/archive/2004/06/29/169224.aspx Whidbey: opaque -> transparent- June 25, 2004 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 and is the thing I keep in mind every time some &8220;bad&8221; thing happens because of transparency: the challenge is the transition. When people are used to our old beta cycle and they get a mostly-untested community...http://blogs.msdn.com/markcli/archive/2004/06/25/165458.aspx Upcoming Whidbey beta- June 23, 2004 Eeesh, more than a month since I last posted. I got feedback in the past couple days ago that while the community dropsmore frequent builds are nice, what many people (especially non-MSDN subscribers) want is access to any build period. The feedback is to work on that first, and more specifically to get our Whidbey beta out and give the public access to it. That is actually what we are doing right now. The Whidbey beta is close - our mktg folks will...http://blogs.msdn.com/markcli/archive/2004/06/23/164071.aspx |