Imagine it's released and doesn't work well on half the installations. The pitch forks would be out, and the mob would be on the loose. Believe me.... the less software costs, the stronger the opinion of the people using it, and the larger the feeling of entitlement to the worlds greatest platform.... It's done when it's done. Without evidence... I think (opinion!!!) that it will be early spring time; if ever. Now it has to run under Win7, Vista, XP. It's a bag of fleas and not really a realtime environment. MS took our money and used it to create modules to regulate the use of the software to their advantage and not to the users, definitely not to perform better. And that makes the task so difficult at hand.
Lemo