If you are highly interested in what is coming from Microsoft for Whidbey and Longhorn, be sure and pay careful attention to the abstracts from the PDC conference.
http://mymsevents.com/MyMSEvents/search.aspx
You will find new bits of information such as:
· No-touch deployment is getting a marketing name (as well as some new capabilities): ClickOnce
· ASP.Net 2.0 server controls will be able to make out-of-band calls back to the server
· Indigo will be on the Whidbey/Yukon release (that my interpretation, anyway)