WinFS Beta 1 & new MSDN Subscriber Downloads
As you probably know, MS released WinFS Beta 1, which runs in WinXP! Check the team blog for some interesting information. Quentin Clark gives some hints on the direction that ADO.NET is taking.
On the other hand, the subscriber downloads page in MSDN does not suck anymore! the left-side tree is loaded on demand and you can have a 'My Content' filter which makes it easier to manage. However, the 'Microsoft File Transfer Manager' is still the same, and keeps telling me I don't have enough free space even if I do...