There is so much new content over here, and there are some many people blogging on that.... I'll save that up. It's gorgeous anyhow....

The one intriguing thing to me was that the Longhorn graphics engine is based on vector graphics. Long, long ago I used to work on mainframes. All the graphics we had were vector graphics, a kathode ray drawing on the surface of the Tektronix or a plotter pen drawing something. Then came the PC and the bitmap. And now we're back to vector graphics again. It's all a circle.

Some basics to all the new stuff :

• Learn more about XML
• Learn more about XML-schema XSD
• Use typed datasets

Not very new either.....