Microsoft SQL Server 2008 CTP, November 2007 is out!
Well, Christmas must be early this year ;-) We released Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 yesterday and are announcing the SQL Server 2008 CTP, November 2007 (aka CTP5) today.
Download and enjoy ;-)
Daniel
P.S. Yes, this is a reason to get excited :-))