I just learned that Windows Azure has been announced, presumably at PDC 2008. It's brand new, so visit the site to learn more and download the ctp.

Windows Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting, and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft data centers.

Between this and Live Mesh, I feel as though we're in the middle of a huge paradigm shift.

The Expression Blend team announced the released of of Service Pack 1 for Expression Blend 2 today. Here are the details for this release.

This Service Pack provides you with all of the functionality you had with our earlier Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview. Besides allowing you to create new projects for WPF, Silverlight 1, and Silverlight 2 RC, we are also exposing new platform functionality like Font Embedding / Subsetting for Silverlight 2 projects.

You can download the service pack here.

ADO.NET Data Services is the new name for project "Astoria", and it's been built from the ground up using the lessons learned from the "Astoria" prototyping phases. You can download the new CTP as part of the ASP.NET 3.5 extensions.

Here's what you get as part of this CTP:

The September preview of Expression Blend 2 has been released. Here are the new features:

Download it here and get to work on those Silverlight applications.

The Project Astoria September 2007 CTP has been released. It's a refresh of the May CTP, but it works with Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2.

The Astoria September 2007 CTP is now available for download. This CTP is for the most part a refresh of the May CTP bits recompiled so they run with Visual Studio 2008/Entity Framework Beta 2. We did tweak here or there, but no new features were added.

You can download it here.