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Scott Guthrie delivered part two of this year's MIX09 keynote speech, revealing just how Bill Buxton's arguments for better design processes are affecting the developer tools shipping this year from Microsoft. He revealed a raft of product announcements and upcoming features.

First off, ASP.NET MVC 1.0 ships today.

As well, the Microsft Web Platform Installer is now widely available. The Web Platform Installer is interesting mix of the Add/Remove Windows Features control panel, the RedHat package manager, and the Apple iTunes store. From a single download, you can configure the installation of various IIS features, as well as search for, download, and install various IIS extensions and IIS applications such as wikis, blogs, and the like. With this tool, users can install platforms like Wordpress or Drupal with a single action, and the installer takes care of installing any dependencies.

For the entrepreurial set, Scott showcased the Microsoft BizSpark program.

The key point about the BizSpark program is that software startups can have access to all of the Microsoft software and support they need for the first three years at no charge.

The folks from stackoverflow.com, Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood (of Joel on Software and Coding Horror respectively), talked about how the BizSpark gave their site the opportunity to use the Microsoft .NET platform for the same price as a LAMP stack. 

To follow, Scott's many revelations about the next version of Silverlight.