Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Touching an already sensitive nerve is this blog entry from Somasegar asking us developers to download and check out the Future ASP.NET release. Are they kidding??? We might be as much as a year out from the Oracs release which from what I read is not even feature set yet (which seems to me in MS speak to mean - the process of dropping features steadily until a release date can be met). As a customer I can't tell you how frustrating this is. Please ship the next release before talking about the ones after that. Especially since we have been in some preview/beta mode for over a year with this release. It speaks of a lack of confidence in your own product when you are afraid to just build it and release it, but instead choose to push it out in a unusable form years before it will be released begging developers to try it out and tell them what to do. These are tools - most developers just stay heads down on the tool they currently have until a new one shows up, they aren't goofing around with tools that may or may not ever show up. Grrrr....