I am trying to get some things caught up...including some posts I have been wanting to make...so I am a little late with this news. Unless you live under a rock, you have probably already heard this. But for you rock dwellers, Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Beta 2 has been released.
There are a couple of extra installation tasks that must be performed post installation. Scott Guthrie has a nice post on some of the new features and the post installation tasks that must be performed.