Interesting developments in Europe this year.
It looks like they are both moving away from square tapers. I was almost expecting one of them to borrow Campagnolo's design, but that clearly hasn't happened.
Instead, Miche have Evo Max
http://www.bikom.pl/product_info.php...roducts_id=440
The other new products I saw on that sight were Supertype carbon brakes and Performance v-brakes.

Stronglight have Activ Link. Given that it features on cranksets from the top to the bottom, including the Impact (which is made from Sugino XD blanks and then finished by Stronglight), I bet it has something to do with Sugino's new Direct Drive.
http://www.suginoltd.co.jp/directdrive_e.html

Anyway, I thought these might be of interest to you lot. It's nice to have some variety in bike parts after all

David