Have just seen the keynote speech for Remix08. The first two thirds of the speech was about Microsoft and developers in general changing to more Apple like culture of design within products. It was an interesting talk although coming from a web agency background the design up front principals are very much ingrained in the web. Moving to web and then desktop applications, I guess it'll be a lot less prevalent and probably an afterthought.

The second 1/3 was more what I'd been expecting and a lot more product and technology based. Things that piqued my interest:

• Javascript Inellisense (intellisense for JQuery and other external libraries)
  
• ASP.NET MVC (cmplete control over the html using .NET controls)
• Silverlight Video
• Silverlight Deep Zoom (check out http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/)
• Silverlight in general looks like a nicer easier to develop flash

More to follow..