Visual Studio 2008 Arrives One Month Earlier

Published by: Codrut Nistor, in News

January31st2008

Some Microsoft fans go as far as saying there's a conspiracy against their object of adoration, and in some cases, they behave like they shouldn't. As you probably know already, I am not crazy about Vista or Microsoft's way of making business (that's not always true, because sometimes they make things right, too), but I always appreciate when products arrive before the scheduled date, exactly as it happened yesterday with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008...

Being given the countless delays and features dropped along Vista's development, as well as the recent bad news regarding the next version of Windows, it's great to find out that Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 gets released one month earlier, don't you think?

The idea is as it follows - previously, Visual Studio was scheduled to be released on the 27th of February, together with SLQ Server 2008, which got delayed, and Windows Server. To balance things as much as possible, Microsoft decided to push the retail release of Visual Studio 2008 almost one month earlier, to the 30th of January. I said "as much as possible" because they can't actually balance things when SQL Server 2008 is expected to arrive about 6 months later, but it's good to see them try...

Well, let's hope Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 doesn't have any major flaws that could have been solved in a month, because it would really be a pity for this product to miss the launch party next month, whose theme is going to be "Heroes Happen Here". In the end, even heroes make mistakes, but for Microsoft, the time has come to be a hero with as few flaws as possible!