Flexbeta has many cool screen captures of Longhorn, the latest Microsoft operating system.  These shots are from build 5048, which is apparently stable despite some work still needed for driver support.

Looks like Loïc Le Meur's first Les Blogs conference was a huge success, based on the feedback of some folks, the high number of stories written (blog links found via Technorati, but there were many press stories as well - Google News has about 37 news stories, including publications such as Wired and the Guardian).  All in all, there were 300 participants from more than 20 countries, 30 speakers, 3 TV channels, France Info radio, 30 journalists from around the world - amazing for an impromptu get together of blogging experts, developers, vendors, investors and enthusiasts at large.

Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the event, but there are so many different folks that were there and so generously blogged at length about their experience, that I feel as if I had actually been there in loco.  However, there is a lot of information to digest, so here are just a couple of interesting links that are very useful:

- one is a Les Blogs Wiki put together by folks such as Loïc himself, Constantin Basturea, Neville Hobson, and others

- the second one is an entry from Mihai Crasneanu on the Doc Searls speech, which I thought hit home quite a few points about the current state of the blogging industry.  The set of slides can be downloaded from here.