The Week of Nov 7
Don't about the rest of the world, but in Italy November is considered a "sad" month. A month in which nobody would normally get married or celebrate anything. Kind of superstition mostly due to the fact that we celebrate (so to speak, mourn more exactly) for the dead on Nov 2--yep, just Nov 2. We would probably never have important elections in November or release a key product like Visual Studio .NET 2005 and SQL Server 2005. But fortunately for the rest of the world that is not Italy :-)
So we now know the date (precisely, the week not yet the day) of the official release of what was once named Whidbey--the week of November 7th. Nicely enough, it's the same week of the Las Vegas leg of the DevConnections show. One more reason to attend. (My talks and seminars included ...)