I’ve been quite impressed with the MVP Global Summit & the Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond area. It’s been a blast meeting and hanging out with everyone (not to mention the content!

For a while, one of the points the VS.NET team was touting in their demos and selling points was that ~finally~ we were going to get the latest and greatest UI controls that were used in the flagship products, namely Office.

Joel openly ponders… I know it’s coming, but the question is when. And what, for that matter.

Next week on Tuesday, October 4 from 6–8p, the Jacksonville Developer User Group (JAXDUG) will hold elections for a new group of leaders of the user group.

Yesterday afternoon/last night was the first little MVP Global Summit event. There was a little portals dinner with a handful of CMS/WSS/SPS MVPs who were in town before the Summit starts (Wednesday) and some MSFT movers and shakers within the portals group.

<a title="" href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/sharepoint/default.mspx" target="_blank">WSS</a> SP2 is now available: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9C552114-DC9A-43EE-9281-B080B7C280B4&displaylang=en"><font color="#ee7900">MSFT WSS SP2</font></a> Aside from a hotfix rollup, the following features/capabilities that are provided by <a title="" href="http://www.

Yesterday might have been one of my longer days. After partying all Saturday afternoon & into the night at my wife’s friends’s wedding in Augusta, Maine, we were up at 6am EST (-0500) for the 2.

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I’m on my way to Redmond & the Microsoft campus today for the first time for the 2005 MVP Global Summit.

[via Chris Pratley] Chris Pratley has posted a few tidbits about the new version OneNote that will be released along with the new Office 12.