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Great video! Greg is a fantastic presenter, especially given his topic. Thanks, Charles!

@Trancecoder: We had many similar internal conversations leading-up to MIX10. If you believe that the web is only something that's delivered through a browser, then I can appreciate the perspective (though WP7 can absolutely handle browser-based content too). If you believe that the web is a basic component of almost any modern application, then this makes sense. Every day, more devices are connecting to the web. If we exclude games, how many of the top 50 applications in any mobile marketplace would cease to work if they were cutoff from the web? From my perspective, the web may have started out as browser-exclusive, but it's grown well beyond that.

While it's MIX10-focused, today's blog post shows what the bandwidth graph looked like earlier today:

http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2010/03/19/mix10-wrap-up.aspx

Congratulations, Calciol! It's up to you, but we always love to hear how people solved the Hard Hat Challenges. Send an e-mail to pdc09 (at) microsoft.com, and we'll coordinate your prize.

Here's a link to this week's Hard Hat Challenge document. Good luck!

And with that, we have a winner! Congratulations, Tokter! Great job solving the Challenge. Drop us a line at pdc09 (at) microsoft.com, and we'll have the poster and shirt sent to you.

Nice work, Tokter. You guys are getting close!

The timer is a wonderful plot device, and it adds a bit of drama to the conversation. The fact that viewers are passionate about it at all (not always in a good way) tells me that it's working. If we were just a 10-minute show without the annoying buzzer, what fun would that be?

Sorry, but that's not the correct answer, DaleRoss. Keep trying!

Here's a link to the file you'll need for this week's Hard Hat Challenge. Good luck!