SPC09? Too Much Information!

From my perch inside booth 711 (lucky Las Vegas coincidence?), I can feel the excitement of the people here at Microsoft's SharePoint Conference '09, fueled by the official unveiling of SharePoint 2010. Tom Rizzo, Microsoft's director of SharePoint, described the release of details in SharePoint 2010 as "getting hit by a fire hose."
He's right. Several folks I've spoken to here are shaking their heads at the volume of information being thrown at them. But Microsoft has done a nice job of summarizing all the changes to the software in a thick book distributed to all conference attendees, and it is making videos of the presentations available to all here on its "MySPC" website. No word yet if this information will ultimately find its way into the public realm.
Meanwhile, Microsoft's Patterns and Practices Group is working overtime to get out the documentation surrounding SharePoint 2010. That group was originally targeting a date three months from now, but Jeff Teper, Microsoft corporate vice president of Office SharePoint Server, indicated the work will now be mostly completed by Microsoft's PDC event in November. But, Teper added, "I'm not committing."…
-- David