I've just read this in crn.com: http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=59301466
To quote: "Microsoft this week will reaffirm its promise to have Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 finished by the end of the quarter and its intent to have "Avalon" and "Indigo" subsystems available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 in the near future. At the VSLive show in San Francisco, Microsoft will issue another Community Technology Preview of Beta 2. The CTP will offer "more team system components" as well as performance improvements to the IDE, Microsoft said"