Thanks for asking, Tom. I've written some stuff over in the thread for Jim's video. I really can't say anything more about release dates. They pay me to build this stuff and build it right and then pay some other guys to do a great job at keeping track of it and figuring out how to balance the communication to our customers.

I'll back up Pseudo's comments, too: if you are a developer and thing you've got what it takes, get to microsoft.com/jobs and apply. There's a bunch of WinFS jobs posted there RIGHT NOW.

Samuel

Edit: JW's got the goods here, btw. This is spot on:

http://weblogs.asp.net/jmazner/archive/2004/08/29/222493.aspx