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Found this in the Longhorn-section up on MSDN: "Avalon" Community Technology Preview Available. The Community Technology Preview of "Avalon" can be found in the Microsoft® WinFX™ Software Development Kit (SDK), available for download by MSDN Subscribers. It contains documentation, samples, command-line compilers, and tools designed to help you develop managed-code applications and libraries using WinFX.

The Microsoft WinFX SDK requires the Microsoft .NET Framework v2.0 Beta 1 and the “Avalon” Community Technology Preview. In order to use Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 to develop “Avalon” applications, Visual Studio 2005 is required to be installed prior to the WinFX SDK.

This should run on Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server - let's try!