Community Launch all over

I just got home from the Community launch for Visual Studio 2005 and SQL 2005 and I have to say I made it out pretty much unscathed (bar Daves Karaoke) other than that it was great to see everyone there, although there was a limited number of freebies but thats ok as I'm heading to the business launch in small doses tomorrow.
That being said I did get to face off against some rivals on Halo (yes Halo not Halo 2 the classics never die).

In other news I finally got my confirmation email for the Office 12 Beta so as i write I'm downloading the installer. You may ask why I'm so desparate to check out the new Office 12 beta basically I've been asked by my good friends at microsoft to write a white paper on InfoPath development with office 12 and VS2005, so hence the early preview, I'll keep you posted on how I get on.