Well, Nov 7th passed, Visual Studio 2005 (aka Whidbey) was launched, as well as Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Unfortunately, my lack of time is quite severe and I even haven't got time to download the final version. As far as can tell, the change are impressive, even if there are some quite reports that the environment is not so stable. I'm sure that the answer is somewhere in-between. On one side developers want to ship as late as possible to fix as much defects as possible, on the other side customers (that are the developers too) want it as early as possible. At least they announced that Service Pack1 for VS2005 will be shipped quite soon. This means a good thing, that Microsoft is aware that the quality is not as high as they wanted, but they want to fix this.
Also this post wants to be a keepalive for all of you that are reading my posts. I'm apologizing that I'm not able to keep a regular schedule for posting here, but I'm trying to fix that in the near future. By using comments you can help me finding more time to post here, as I know that some one is just waiting to find new things.