Some of this is going to @prolificd on Twitter for the Episode 12 giveaway. Congratulations!

P.S. Please send us your shipping address at studio@mstalk.in.

We are very traditional... well, maybe not in lifestyle and opinions, but when it comes to the culture at One Microsoft Way, yes we are.

Office 2010 has been given the version number 14.0, despite the fact that its immediate predecessor, Microsoft Office 2007, was designated by the version number 12.0. The skipping of version number 13.0 was due to superstition relating to the number thirteen - Triskaidekaphobia.

To keep up with the tradition, we've skipped Episode 13! We've pushed Episode 14 right after 12.

Okay, so why don't you tell us how we've been doing in bringing to you more than 10 episodes with aweosme guests and much enthusiasm?

Take this small (really small, takes less than five minutes) survey, and share your feedback. We would really, really appreciate this.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VFS9VCR

As a thank you gesture, all respondents will be entered in a raffle to win some cool gifts and laptop stickers.
The survey maxes out at 100 respondents. And we have 20-odd hampers!

Thanks! Looking forward to improve things, always.

- A and M

... others get swag too!

So, here we are announcing the Office 2010 special giveaway winners from Episode 11.

*drumrolls*

• Animesh Jain wins himself an Office 2007: Home and Student edition license, with a free upgrade to Office 2010.
• All other commentators at the time of writing this, on the post and on Twitter, get themselves a goodie hamper.

While the Episode 10 was live, our comments system had few issues. Sigh. Sorry folks!

• Hardik Shah, the only commentator incidentally, wins a Microsoft Press Powershell book.

All winners, please drop in a mail with your shipping address to studio@mstalk.in.

Look what arrived via FedEx on my desk. Thanks @jasonberes for the stash.

As we promised, the VS2010 launch giveaway should be a special one. Here's the dope on it.

• NetAdvantage for .NET – include ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight controls ($1195 value)
• NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization ($595 value)
• NetAdvantage for WPF Data Visualization ($995 value)
• NetAdvantage Icons Education pack ($199 value)
• NetAdvantage Icons Legal pack ($199 value)
• NetAdvantage Icons Web & Commerce pack ($199 value)
• NetAdvantage Icons Healthcare pack ($199 value)
• NetAdvantage Icons Office Basics pack ($199 value)
• NetAdvantage Icons Business & Finance pack ($199 value)
• NetAdvantage Icons Software & Computing pack ($199 value)

Winners have been contacted via email or on Twitter. You'll soon recieve the specifics over email from Infragistics folks.

Okay, yes, we are very excited about Microsoft Office 2010 launching next month. And believe us, we are working on an overdrive to bring you an exciting Office 2010 launch special package.

As we start recording with our guests (yes, the plural is not a typo), we'll throw the floor open for questions you would want to ask. Drop in your questions about Office 2010 in general or on any of the five products - Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, and OneNote - as comments here or send us a tweet (@mstalkstudio) or an email (studio@mstalk.in).

The questions that get asked during the podcast get big props and small gifts :)

And ofcourse, the giveaways galore at the launch special - laptop stickers, goodies, and even a Microsoft Office license.

Stay tuned!

Note from Infragistics:

All icons are provided as raster images in seven different sizes (16px, 24px, 32px, 48px, 64px, 128px and 256px square) as PNG files, plus an ICO file. Additionally, all icon packs (except Office Basics) are made available in 100% vectorized XAML file format. Vector graphics let you resize the icons without a loss in their clarity or crispness. Visual Studio® 2008 projects for WPF, Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 accompany the XAML icons to expedite your use of them in your WPF resource dictionaries, or WPF/Silverlight user controls and view box controls. For each icon, we also provide the icon in three interactive states: normal, hover (highlighted) and disabled (grayed-out) so you will always have icons in the right-size and style you need.

Details

 Each icon pack is priced USD 199.