March Toward Launch

Yesterday, our customers signed off on our release candidate. In case you don't know, the VS and .NET Framework development teams have a customer board building applications on our beta software and we need them all to say we're good to go before we can ship (or to tell us that their development schedule doesn't allow them to upgrade to the latest release candidate and thereby excuse themselves from the process). So yesterday we got the signoff from the 24 customers (any one of whom can stop our ship cycle).

These customers had a pretty substantial impact on the product, including uncovering some notable 64-bit CLR issues, and we owe them a big thanks. They bet on us with their projects, some of which are substantial internal applications. Not only that, but they had to deal with upgrades from Beta to Beta and from CTP to CTP, none of which is really a supported scenario. So these folks went through considerable pain to help us.

All I can say is, "Thanks."