Sorry I've been absent for just about two weeks. I've been 'heads down' with preparations for Mix06. We had the keynote run through today and things seem to be on a good trajectory.

I locked myself in the home office tonight and finally cleaned up the cruft from and posted the specification for Q. Keep in mind this thing is nowhere near final -- I'm sure we will have bunches of revisions in the months to come, mostly in response you give us via feedback and comments.

[An hour or two later...]

OK, I got so jazzed playing around with our alpha drop and the opening sequence from Schematic I just had go all Channel9 / Robert Scoble-ly and make a short video to give you a sneak preview.

My hat's off to Robert, Kevin, Peng (Schematic folks) and Mark and Stephen (Microsoft folks) for doing such a fantastic job on this stuff on a super tight deadline. You guys ROCK!!!!!!

Specification: http://www.mediacentersandbox.com/q/qspecification.zip

Movie: http://www.mediacentersandbox.com/q/qmoviealpha.zip

As always, comments are welcome.

P.S. Oh, and you'll notice I'm no longer referring to this puppy as our Mix06 project. That's because we are going to ship this application source code with the Windows Media Center SDK as a sample.