Here's a little reality check on where fox is seen to be fitting into the big picture of the next version of Visual Studio. Link compliments of JVP...

http://www.devx.com/free/press/2000/meader.asx

I dont know about everyone else, but "junior varsity" was pretty humbling to me. Plus to here about the new shared runtimes (fox not included) allowing for cross language inheritance is really exciting I think!