”If you didn’t make it to the PDC you can buy a DVD with WMVs and PowerPoint slides of the sessions. Unfortunately the DVD doesn’t come cheap – you’ll have to pay $499 USD. If you were at the PDC you can buy the DVD for $199 USD.”
This does not make any sense to me, this thing should cost about $20. I could even stomach $50, but $500 is ridiculous. What's next? Charging for SDKs? This is information that Microsoft wants to get to the developers, it is a good thing for Microsoft if more people know about this stuff, so why the cost? Actually I would suggest that they send this DVD to every MSDN Magazine Subscriber, MSDN Subscriber, and mail them like AOL disks... Get this info out there, blanket the developer community. (This is right up your alley Scoble, help us out)