Microsoft has announced that PerformancePoint will be eaten by SharePoint and SQL Server. PerformancePoint will be discontinued as a stand-alone product and features like the scorecard’ing, KPI and graphing will be integrated into SharePoint. Microsofts BI strategy appears to focus on SharePoint, Excel and SQL Server.
More info will probably be available within a few days…
Microsoft has now released the RC1 of the new version 8 of Internet Explorer
more information here http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/01/26/internet-explorer-8-release-candidate-now-available.aspx
While waiting for decent developer support for SharePoint in Visual Studio 2010 one might use the STSADM utiliy from codeplex.
However, Microsoft is working on it and now the 1.3 version of the Visual Studio extensions fix some of the earlier shortcomings of the Microsoft tools, get the CTP and try it out…