>In the end....there is precedent for people at MS to comment on versions - beyond the version that is in beta. Ken's statement to the contrary is - shall we say - not entirely accurate. I'll leave it at that..

Sure there is precident, and the fact that Microsoft has commented on future efforts during a current beta cycle is completely correct. May I remind you we just released the public beta a month ago and we have the rest of this entire year to be in beta. So the fact that nothing is said on our future efforts at this point in the beta cycle is irrelevent. We will announce things when we decide to announce things regardless of the past, so any relevence or comparisons to that past are possibly a useless analysis.