Congrats to the WSE Team for Shipping WSE3!

I`ll pile on to the many announcements of WSE3 having shipped Nov 7.

When we set out on this release, we had a few goals in mind:

• move the interop yardsticks forward (SOAP1.2, MTOM, WSS1.1, WS-Trust/SC/SecPolicy)
• ship a release that provides WSE customers a great path forward towards Indigo - both in terms of interop, and in terms of a programming model that is straightforward to migrate to indigo over time
• address some of the key pieces of feedback from the community and our customers

We were able to deliver on all these goals.  Mark has managed the project incredibly well over the last 10 months, and his blog entry describes the release much better than I could ever aspire to, but one other note bears mentioning: when we set out on the WSE3 release, Mark and his peers in dev and test (Tomek and Jon) drew up a schedule that had WSE shipping 1 week after the Whidbey signoff.  8 months after locking down on that schedule, we were able to ship the release with only a 1 week slip.  That`s pretty dang good by any standards, and fantastic by Microsoft standards! :-)

Congrats to the team!

P.S. more on the "WSE3 interop promise": our stated goal is to ensure that customers who deploy services on WSE3 will be able to call them from WCF 1.0 clients.  So far so good - the current Beta2 build of Indigo interops very nicely with WSE3 RTM, and we intend to keep it that way :-)