Windows Vista has shipped, been released to manufacturing, the horse has bolted, the gene is out of the bottle, the submarine has sufaced, etc etc. If you have a windows application, you should have already completed your testing and have any required patches available, now. Not next week, not next year, now. Even though the general retail release may be a few months away, the techical early adopters, i.e. the ones that decide where IT budgets get spent, are already using it.

So test, test, test, test, test and test some more, then ship those patches. Because people like me are looking for them now.

Well Santa did come early. The WPF/E devcenter is now live. You can download the Windows CTP here, and the Mac CTP here.

Well Frank blogged that WPF/E is finally coming. Frank linked to a blog post by David Boschman, a MSDN developer center and a public CTP available for download.

Frank asked the question “Do my eyes decieve me?” Well the blog post has been deleted, the developer center is blank, and the download link returns “The download you requested is unavailable.” message. So it appears the answer, for now is Yes.

Let’s see if Santa comes early.