Visual Studio 2005 may not ship until 2006
Here is the story on infoworld ...
Update:
After I put this post, saw couple of other posts on the same topic. One says Nov-7 Week (cant get specific than that) and other says it as generic as mid-october this year ... Good part being we can expect the release this year nevertheless ;). More than anything else I have been playing around with these Beta Products for sometime and expect a mature and stable product end of the day.