In  the early hours of this morning here in Australia, Soma announced the availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2.

With the release of Beta 2 comes some unexpected news that the various SKUs have been reduced from 7 to 4 and the “Team System” name has disappeared. There is even a new logo for Visual Studio to boot.

The new list of Visual Studio 2010 product SKU’s, excluding the Express edition, is as follows;

• Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® 2010 Professional
• Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® 2010 Professional with MSDN
• Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® 2010 Premium with MSDN
• Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® 2010 Ultimate with MSDN
• Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® Test Elements 2010 with MSDN
• Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® Team Foundation Server 2010
• Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® Team Lab Management 2010
• Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® Load Test Virtual User Pack 2010

MSDN Subscribers can download the Beta 2 products immediately, while the public availability of the downloads is scheduled for tomorrow.