Upcoming SharePoint 2010 Certifications

SharePoint 2010 Exams coming soon,

For the IT Pros: SP2010 Admin Focus

70-667 TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring
Microsoft Official Curriculum: Will cover configuration of SharePoint 2010 including deployment, upgrade, management, and operation on a server farm.

70-668 PRO: SharePoint 2010, Administrator
Microsoft Official Curriculum: Will cover advanced SharePoint 2010 topics including capacity planning, topology designing, and performance tuning.

For developers: SP 2010 Application Development Focus

70-573 TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development

Microsoft Official Curriculum: Five-day instructor-led course designed for developers with six months or more of .NET development experience. Course covers what you need to know to be an effective member of a SharePoint development team using Visual Studio 2010.

70-576 PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications
Microsoft Official Curriculum: Five-day instructor-led training course designed for development team leads who have already passed the Developing on SharePoint 2010 technical specialist exam. The course covers choosing technologies for and scoping a SharePoint project, best practices for SharePoint development, configuring a SharePoint development environment, advanced use of SharePoint developer features, and debugging of code in a SharePoint project.

https://partner.microsoft.com/40043180

Finally, SharePoint 2010 running on my Windows 7 Laptop... :-)

Finally, I got Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 running on my Window 7 laptop, was suffered a lot with incomplete and inclear steps suggested by Microsoft Guide "Setting Up the Development Environment for SharePoint Server".

I'll suggest to go through comments on the page first, also http://www.mcpblog.net/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=8f2497f6-e77b-4e70-8400-e020b292165c&ID=61 helps to pass through step 8 on configuration wizard.

Update (2010/03/07): download http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=23806

Best of Luck.