Windows Vista

• The big news, according to News.com, Steve Ballmer will ring in availability of Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange 2007 at the New York Stock Exchange on November 30th [via Robert]. This should mean the proper release of WinFX .NET Framework 3 with WCXF, WPF, WF. It will be good to be mainstream again

Software Architecture/SOA/WCF

• Looks like the very capable Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, has essentially picked up the book on SOA Patterns/WCF that I was going to do for Manning. Hey, it looks like its in better hands as I read his first chapter and its great stuff. I look forward to this one.
• Speaking of Arnon on Architecture, check out his column, and in particular "The Saga Continues: "Queues are Databases?" where he responds to Udi who had a couple of comments regarding his second post on Queues Are Databases.
• Ted Neward has started an MSDN column based on his Pragmatic Architecture talks he has been doing and if the first article in the series on Layering, is any indication it's going to be a great series. Highly Recommended!
• Scott Hanselman has two great posts on Identity/CardSpaces; first here and then his latest Hanselminutes episode. Lots of great resources here. Also highly recommended!
• Jorgen points to a Craig McMurtry post on Versioning Service Interfaces, definitely an tricky area.
• The PAG folks have just released a very much needed  "ClickOnce Resource Kit for SCSF" that was developed in partnership with ClickOnce guru Brian Noyes.
• Nicholas Allan: MixedMode Addressing

WPF/Avalon

• I just discovered this series, which apparently is already in its eighth post; A Tour of XAML VIII: More Fun with Markup Compatability

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