I was amused today to first notice
Robert Scoble's blog post saying that
Microsoft Watch was spreading a rumor that WinFS wasn't dead after all. Then a bit later I noticed that
Wally McClure posted that a WinFS beta was on the MSDN Subscriptions site (and indeed, it is). Then a little later I noticed
a post in the SQLJunkies blog that was posted even earlier than the Microsoft Watch post, by Microsoft's Tom Rizzo, saying that the bits had accidentally been posted a little earlier than they meant - only by a less than a day. This of course will end up in a new Keeping up with the Joneses post. Now that I have filtered my aggregator on “WinFS”, I can see a number of other announcements by MS folks that the beta was online. So many blogs, so little time...