Martin Fowler posted an interesting summary of the alt.net conference, in which he mentions that the ASP.NET framework is getting an MVC makeover.

At our Rails classes, we introduce the MVC concept right away, because it's the central nervous system of the Rails framework. Fortunately for me, when I started learning Rails, it wasn't the first time I had encountered an MVC frameworkd. I think I first learned about MVC back when Microsoft used a slighly absurd form of it they called the "Document-View Architecture" back when I was writing Windows applicationsin C++ with MFC. I was perplexed when I switched from C++ to C#, and found that Microsoft had neither provided (nor even recommended) any particular architectural pattern for either Winforms or Webforms apps.

It looks like they've decided that was a bad idea, and are now finding ways to glue MVC back onto ASP.NET (which I applaud).