SharePoint 2010 hit the Technical Preview milestone a few weeks back. After watchig some of the sneak peak videos I was jazzed, escpecially as a developer with the new integration of Visual Studio 2010 the new Solution Builder features and many of the other tools on the way to help make developing for SharePoint much much easier!  Check out the developer video located at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx for more details.   More to come on this topic soon!