The ArcGIS Explorer Team would like to extend a big thanks to everyone that attended one of our sessions or stopped by to say hello or ask questions in the Explorer Showcase area. We enjoyed meeting you and learning more about what you plan to do with ArcGIS Explorer, and we enjoyed the opportunity to share with you our excitement about the product. Most important of all, we got lots of great feedback, comments, and suggestions, and we'll be talking about some of these in more detail here in future posts.

In the Showcase and at the sessions we were using both the currently available public download (Build 380) and also showing one of the more recent software builds (Build 392) to highlight some of the new features that you can look forward to in the next release. This upcoming release of Explorer will continue to evolve for a few more weeks and will be delivered sometime in July.

The Explorer Team's philosophy is to push out releases incrementally and often, and we've been averaging a release every two months since the initial release that came out along with ArcGIS 9.2 back in November. We often refer to releases by their build number, and to find yours just choose Help on Explorer's main menu, then choose About ArcGIS Explorer.

Over 14,000 attended the 2007 ESRI User Conference, but if you were unable to join them you can learn more about what happened at the conference by visiting the User Conference Blog. In case you missed the opening Plenary presentation which highlighted ArcGIS Explorer and ArcGIS Online, you can listen to the ESRI Podcast of that section.