Excellent news are coming from Microsoft!

Next week we can expect first public preview of ASP.NET Extensions (ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Ajax improvements, ADO.NET Data Services, ...). Full release we can expect next year.

This year we can also expect new Silverlight V2.0 Alpha. First Beta with Go-Live license will probably be released in first quarter of 2008.

More details about this and about some other things (like upcoming ability to browse, download and debug .NET Framework) you can read at new Scott Guthrie's post