I remember alot of things. I remember my first PC being a Commodore 64.

I remember owning the coolest little thing at the time, a Timex Sinclair.

I remember building my first PC. It was a 10 mhz NEC V20 8088 compatible and I built it in a cardboard box because cases were expensive back then, and I was 14 or so.

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I remember a time when MSDN didn't suck.

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I log into MSDN, I am looking for the new Office. I am looking for the new Vista. These are things I should be coding for. By the time my next application rolls out, Vista will be near. (Or so we assume from the latest information). If vista is near, then so is Office 2007. It would be nice to know that I can count on my application working with these technologies.

I can get new CTP/betas of everything from IE 7 (thanks for the boost firefox) to Atlas (thanks for the boost Google via Ajax) to friggin Microsoft Porn Service.

But I guess I cant get a recent copy of Vista or a copy at all of Office 2007 because they don't have a competitor in these areas?

Let me rephrase. After MSDN's price restructuring that requires not only your first but second born for an MSDN subscription (the top of the line subscription is $10,939 compared to the previous top of the line of ~$3500) I can not as a subscriber and a developer (DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!) legitimately get either of these products, even though there are torrents all over the place for the script kiddies to get.

Hey Ballmer. Thanks for all the fish...