Now the MSDN subscribers have had their exclusive Avalon and Indigo Community Technology Preview fun. Everyone (myself included) can now go and get the 440MB of Indigo goodness with Avalon in there too.

This is a major checkpoint on the way to Beta 1 and a big change from the early PDC 2003 bits. We have docs, samples and binaries in there. Couple it with the February 2005 Community Technical Preview of Visual Studio 2005 and you are ready to go.

Again, the more feedback we can get, the higher the chances of us shipping the right Beta and RTM functionality for you.

Kevin has some fine advice (with some caveats - I can see why he's a PM and not a lawyer J) about how you can install without burning the ISO to disc, though you may want to burn one just to keep as a memento.