Microsoft released VS 2008 Beta2 few days back and it's up for grab @ the Microsoft oficial site. The new VS comes under the theme "Build Next-Generation Applications", intending to give more of Vista look & feel. Since .NET Framework 3.5 has also been released lately (also under Beta2 stage at the moment) , it would most probably be the platform to be shipped with the VS 2008 final release..
I'm an IT graduate of both Curtin University of Technology AUS as well as SLIIT. I'm so addicted to .NET & J2EE technologies and dying to master every single bit of them....