Well the blogosphere’s already running hot (Soma, Rob, Scott to name a few) with the news that Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is now downloadable.

The highly anticipated Beta 2 release is significant for a number of reasons including a Go-Live license that will be important for many. I’m sure everyone will be busy blogging about what they find over the coming weeks.

Plenty to download

MSDN Subscriber downloads shows lots of options for downloading. There goes my bandwidth for the day…

 

New Names

The following table shows the new names for many of the 2008 versions of VSTS products. (From Rob’s blog)

Visual Studio 2005	Visual Studio 2008
Visual Studio Team System	Visual Studio Team System 2008
Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite	Visual Studio Team System 2008 – Team Suite
Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects	Visual Studio Team System 2008 – Architecture Edition
Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers	Visual Studio Team System 2008 – Development Edition
Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers	Visual Studio Team System 2008 – Test Edition
Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals	Visual Studio Team System 2008 – Database Edition
Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server	Visual Studio Team System 2008 – Team Foundation Server
Visual Studio 2005 Team Test Load Agent	Visual Studio Team System 2008 – Test Load Agent