One of the great joys of a PM is to gather an audience into a room, fire up a laptop, point it at a screen - say a quick prayer - then unveil an idea come to life.  It's what you live for in this [software] business, why I love working at Microsoft and especially Microsoft Research.  Not all demos go well; sometimes the ideas are ahead of their time or not enough time was available for fit/finish, and the idea gets lost in translation.  But when a demo does go well all the digital stars seem to align in one magic moment.

In the coming weeks we'll be doing some demos, get the feedback loop started on a few ideas we've been incubating all summer.  I'll update the community when there's internet facing bits we want your feedback on.

Thanks to all who made our demo days perfect, no matter what happens. 

frank