Rick DeJarnette posted on the Bing blog on Friday that we should expect to see an increasing number of visits from msnbot/2.0b, a second (or third?) generation of the crawler used to power Bing.
This really isn't all that helpful to us Webmasters. In all reality, if they didn't tell us that they were testing a new crawler and didn't change the UA string (1.1. to 2.0b), we probably wouldn't have ever noticed.
Why do they still call is msnbot though? Shouldn't it be BingBot? I wonder if Microsoft has an identity crisis.