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The blogscape is alive with posts - start your downloaders (p.s. if you keep getting bounced using Internet Explorer, try Firefox (it has a different download manager)).....

http://blogs.msdn.com/gduthie/archive/2007/11/19/it-s-alive-alive.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/archive/2007/11/19/announcing-the-release-of-visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5.aspx

ScottGu reminds us this is much more than "just VS2008" (SQLServer 2008 November CTP for one)

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/17/nov-17th-links-asp-net-asp-net-ajax-asp-net-mvc-vs-2008-net-3-5-iis7-silverlight.aspx

Dan Fernandez reminds us there are Express (Free) versions too (good screenshots) .....

http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2007/11/19/top-15-things-to-love-about-visual-studio-2008-express.aspx

Or the 90-day trial full version .....

http://blogs.msdn.com/dougste/archive/2007/11/19/visual-studio-team-system-2008-team-suite-90-day-trial-available.aspx

Let's not forget embedded/mobile - .Net Micro Framework anyone?

http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2007/11/19/visual-studio-2008-shipped-what-does-that-mean-for-embedded.aspx

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