I'm severely disappointed in the first edition of Microsoft Architect Journal. I'm hoping for a bit more in the second edition, but won't be able to get to it for a while - I have a stack of papers to sift thru that have been piling up for a month, now.
I'd be interested to see if anyone else had different opinions about it. Several of the topics seemed to be right-on, but they just didn't get to where I expected them to get. Oh well.