I read this morning that Visual Studio 2010 RC will be delivered february next year.

More details on this subject on: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/12/17/visual-studio-2010-and-net-framework-4-beta-period-extended.aspx

A more different story is that the new Moonlight 2 version is avaible to download and install on linux, which I obviously did and I can say, it works fine so hats off for Novell.

Article: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4807

Official Moonlight site: http://go-mono.com/moonlight/