If you missed Scott Guthrie's presentation on Orcas in Brussels, here is the recorded version. Scott is the General Manager of the Developer Division at Microsoft.

Video PodCast

Short recap of Orcas :

- Target .NET 2.0,3.0 or 3.5

- Major HTML/CSS Designer enhancements , Integrated CSS Stylesheet Editor

- Same designer as Expression Designer for UI design

- Integrated ASP.NET Ajax libraries extensible by the user community

- JavaScript Intellisense and debugging support

- Support for Language INtegrated Query LINQ a much better way of doing Object Relational Mapping directly integrated into the language as opposed to using Hibernate for instance, allows you to query relational databases, XML files or objects.

Philippe