$199 or No....
Lance Wrote:
Special Access to Longhorn and Whidbey PDC Release Code Active MSDN Operating Systems, Professional, Enterprise, and Universal subscribers may request a set of software distributed at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2003 (PDC), including the preview versions of the "Longhorn" operating system and SDK, and Visual Studio "Whidbey". Eligible MSDN Subscribers can request the previews by calling MSDN Customer Service. Certified Partners and Breadth ISV / Empower partners should contact their respective Service Centers for further assistance. Note that the preview package contains DVD media, and a DVD drive is required. Please allow 3-4 weeks for fulfillment.
Actually, I called them up earlier today, and they stated that it would be $119. They also stated that it would only be available for PDC members, so I suspect that there story is still a bit up in the air, so I will try calling back later. This PDC stuff (and the lack of budget at my company) is killing me, but at least there is some good documentation out there. /me heads back to read more on XAML.
One of the things that got .NET off the ground was the availability of the Beta2 bits everywhere. I hope Microsoft continues with that