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I was in the middle of a beautifull New and Notable, 2nd day in a row no less when Windows Vista Beta 1 froze. No blue screen, just totally froze. No response to Task Manager or Ctrl-Alt-Delete. I guess you are not supposed to play a Windows Media Player file at the same time as doing anything else or maybe Vista hates Since I've Been Loving You from Led Zeppelin.

• Windows Vista 5219 was released to us testers on Microsoft Connect (finally!!).  I don't know if I have to wipe out Beta 1 or it will install over it, but knowing Microsoft I'm sure I have to repave my machine...
• When I get that installed, then I can attempt to install the PDC CTP of WinFX
• Mary Joe says “The newest Windows 'pillar' was not expected to debut until Longhorn Server. But now it seems WWF is on track to ship with Windows Vista and to be back-ported to older Windows variants.“ Boy, that free StarBucks in Redmond sure does wonders.
• The main man, Rico Mariani, the CLR Performance God, had a great session yesterday or so they tell me. In his post, he discusses various CLR tools all of which I personally use on a daily basis except for his LogDump tool from his blog here. You need to read this post!
• Marco Russo on new Vista Kernel Features
• Raj Das::A Little More on InfoCard & WWF & Vista RSS
• Congrats to John Bristowe for taking the pill. Microsoft is getting a true superstar here that knows his stuff.