It's alive!
The beta 1 of Whidbey can now be downloaded by anyone. At last, people will be able to experience first-hand what all the fuss is about.
We're very excited about this new set of tools, and especially about the Express stuff that will enable non-professional developers to discover the platform and share the fun.
We still have to figure out how to use BitTorrent as a deployment medium. Perhaps beta2? For this one, you'll have to be patient as a lot of other people are downloading the bits right now.
Download one of the five Express Visual Studio versions and Sql Server Express from there...