It's been a few weeks since my last post and I've been busy with customers and Outlook add-ins. Last week, however, I was at Microsoft's internal conference. It's like a TechEd proving ground where presenters get to try out their talks on an internal audience. There is some amazing stuff coming down the line in Windows Server, Visual Studio and SQL Server. I'm really pleased about the data warehousing enhancements across the SQL Server product line.

Way back in 2004 I went to TechEd and blogged a series of articles about new features that would arrive in SQL Server 2005. I plan to do a similar series for SQL Server 2008 but since a lot of stuff we saw last week is still internal I'll only blog about bits in publicly released CTP's.

Finally, the Popfly mashup site is now allowing invitations so the first five people to leave a comment telling me what you plan to do with your mashup gets an invite. You need to leave me your e-mail address as well.