Microsoft has released a robotics development environment, currently available for free download. It appears to be targeted for the Lego Mindstorms RCX, Lego Mindstorms NXT, and fishertechnik systems.
The Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware. Key features and benefits of the Microsoft Robotics Studio environment include: end-to-end Robotics Development Platform, lightweight services-oriented runtime, and a scalable and extensible platform.
- Link (via MAKE: Blog)