Our lives as developers will become much more productive in the coming days as November approaches. I attended TechEd 2005 (my first) in Orlando and watched as Paul Flessner announced the launch date of Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006.
I've been developing since 1988 and it's these exciting improvements that keep me from wanting to fall into management (God forbid!). Thanks Microsoft - keep it up.