It’s refreshing to know that I've been working on .NET 3.0 for the last year! It's amazing and I love the new name, which is now much easier to explain. If you think about it, the switch makes perfect sense because the CLR is solid and does not require much in terms of core language feature development anymore. By naming new extended libraries the ".NET Framework 3.0", developers and users get a clear picture on where we are in terms of the core API and the adoption rate goes through the roof. This is going to make life much simpler.

If you havn't seen many of the cool features in WPF yet and would like to take an in depth look at a WPF application, check out this presentation from my colleague Darren David.

Very wise move MS!!! Here is the original post sent to me from Craig Jaris and Karsten Januszewski, via Fluid's Chief Experience Officer seen in this interview