my life just got really interesting. Introducing “.Windows Workflow Foundation.”

I'll be honest, lots of cool stuff coming out of PDC, a couple of thoughts below. Office applications (see video here): Impressive, and what I find really interesting is the way Word (and especially Powerpoint) look a lot more like the slick UI I have come to expect from my Powerbook. There is a reason that I only use Keynote when I need to do a presentation, it helps me make my presentations look good. What I saw in this video is Powerpoint, Word and Excel doing the same thing. It’s a fun...

I’m working to get the BizTalk 2006 Beta installed to do some work on a BAM demo. I’m moving ahead with the multi-box install (I have the pre-beta 1 bits from TechEd that I did a single box install on). The setup is greatly improved, and I’ve got a few screen shots showing what I selected for the developer box install. This box has Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 (along with the Indigo beta bits, so I can muck around with the Indigo adapter and learn two birds with one stone). The best...