Visual Studio 2008 will be available later this month

Just hot from the Microsoft press room and/or TechEd, depending on where you are: Visual Studio 2008 will be available for developers later this month. That's already, as Microsoft's original plans were that the three products, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 would all be available only in the spring. However, since Visual Studio is almost ready, there's no point in delaying it further.

Thus, MSDN subscribers (at least) will get a white Christmas, after all. Sounds great to me!