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Mary Jo at Microsoft-Watch confirms my suspicion that Xen is indeed The-Xml-based-programming-language-formerly-known-as-X# renamed -- and it's alive and kicking. Jorgen commented on it as well, and since he works on Don Box' Indigo team he should know what's going on there. In turn, I infer that his comment is an indirect confirmation of Mary Jo's statement.

Michael Stuart, lead developer of the .NET User Interface Application Block and Chuck Cavaness of Struts fame are presenting together at the Austin Software Architects User Group on 2/10. The ASAUG site has the details.

I'll be joining Markus Egger, Stephen Fulcher, Michael Stuart and many more interesting guys to speak at DevDays on ASP.NET Security in Houston on 3/1 and in Austin on 3/9. I am looking forward to seeing you there. If you're interested, you can register here.

Congratulations to Jeff Julian, DonXML, Cazzu and Oleg for the MVP honors.

Are you like me? You think Tablet PCs are really cool, but you want one that can do STUFF? Not one of those whimpy 800 Mhz Pentium III boxes? One where you can run all of the apps (Visual Studio, Eclipse, Virtual PC, BizTalk 2004) that you need when you work with web services. And you want one with a screen that' big enough you don't need to go and get new glasses?

Last month several blogs reported that the X# project would not result in a product in the forseeable future.

Has anyone else checked out:

This question comes up frequently in the dotnet.xml newsgroup. Here's an article that may help to pick the correct one.