At RoboBusiness today, Microsoft announced the release of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 CTP1.
Get the free download here -
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=EB00C558-2163-45A5-BEFE-531AD48BC525&displaylang=en
Mary-Jo Foley has an article on why you should care ('Why business users should grab a copy of Microsoft's new robotics' toolkit')
See that here - http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1325
The folks who attended the conference also saw some videos from my new project. CNET references it in the article - "Microsoft's new gig: Virtual host to robot competitions".
See that here - http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9914959-7.html.
Outside of this, mum's the word until the clock at www.robochamps.com hit's 0's across the board.