Re:Does it run on Linux? (Score 4, Informative)

It may be a little off topic, but it seems worthwhile to plug to a nice GPL'd robotics package which runs on *nix, has built in simulators for 2D and 3D, and supports a lot of COTS robots (including Roombas):

Player/Stage: http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/

Probably not exactly the same target audience as MS's SDK, but we're all geeks, here, right?