It is an exciting time at Microsoft.  People who attended (or watched live) India's biggest event so far, IndiMIX '06 heard Steve Ballmer talking about Microsoft's Live platform.  Steve also announced the RTM of Vista!  Enterprise customers start getting Vista this month and consumer editions would be available in Jan.   Office 2007 has RTM'ed as well, making the environment even more exciting.

While all of these big ticket products are getting released, it is also exciting to see some of the other products such as Microsoft Expression shaping up very well.  I did a demo, my first big one at Microsoft, on Microsoft Expression Web.  The more I have explored that product, the more I am amazed at the amount of thought and planning that has gone into building it.

Talking about releases, I got to hear an exciting bit of news today.  In fact, I also got out of my laziness and decided to blog about it, because I was waiting for this to happen for quite a while now.

Photosynth has gone live today with a Tech Preview. For all those who watched videos of Photosynth and said - wow! that's really cool - here is a chance to preview the experience.  Mark my words again - you can only preview the experience at this time.  But even that is real cool.

A few tips - have a real good Internet connection and a modern PC - otherwise you might be a little disappointed.  Shouldn't matter eventually, but the current version needs this.  Also please provide your feedback to the Photosynth team.  Needless to say, this is something really innovative, never-tried-before stuff - so your inputs will be valuable in helping the Photosynth team build a great product.

Check it out at http://labs.live.com/photosynth