Ok, so maybe it's not quite that dramatic, but I've gotten a lot of questions over the last month asking when the Orcas Feb CTP (now known as the March CTP) would be available. Well your waiting is over... the March CTP can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cf76fcba-07af-47ac-8822-4ad346210670&displaylang=en&tm .

There is a tonne of new stuff from my team included in this release - things like the Entitiy Framework and Entitiy Data Model, LINQ to DataSet, LINQ to XML - all of the features that you have been reading about recently on the ADO.NET and XML team blogs. Check it out, and let us know what you think!