There has been a number of CTP's released in the last couple of days. Yesterday I pointed out the WCF site, in addition to that there is also a new graphic design tool (code named Acrylic) for Windows Vista applications. The January 2006 CTP of the Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer is available as a download.
Visual Basic 9.0 Overview
Although I haven't spent much time with Visual Basic in the last year, I still like to see what kind of cool extentions they are adding for developer productivity. They published an overview on MSDN.