VS 2005 availability....

[Sam Marrocco]

My ongoing pursuit to purchase VS2005 has revealed new information.....

After hearing from Microsoft that VS2005 was "on backorder" since the
November 7 "launch", 4 calls to microsoft revealed new information:

VS 2005's "ship date" is actually December 1st--a fact left out of all
the literature & web pages for the last year insisting that November 7
was the magic date.

So, purchasers (non-MSDN) will have to wait at least until then. Should
have just been called VS 2006......

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

VS 2005's "ship date" is actually December 1st--a fact left out of all the
literature & web pages for the last year insisting that November 7 was the
magic date.

So, purchasers (non-MSDN) will have to wait at least until then. Should
have just been called VS 2006......

Well, even MSDN subscribers who do not want to download some GB and burn
them to DVD have to wait until the December shipment.

 

[Robert Beaubien]

I just received an advertisement from Programmers Paradise. They apparently
have VS 2005 in stock.

 

[Sam Marrocco]

I just received an advertisement from Programmers Paradise. They apparently
have VS 2005 in stock.

That email is apparently incorrect. Programmer's Paradise will not have
it until at least another week (according to their sales head) and they
didn't even know that MS is not shipping until December 1st.

 

[m.posseth]

Herrfried ,

A MSDN subscriber also receives the downloads on DVD ( not the same as the
reatil versions ) these DVD`s contain multiple ISO images
It is also on the MSDN developer DVD ( the yellow DVD`s ) i am currently at
home so can`t give you the number but the pro version is there in the last
shipment


However just to be sure that i have downloaded the Pro version from the MSDN
subscriber download site, with 8 M/bit downstream this is nut such a hughe
download , the Microsoft servers seem to have a good connection with my
providers


regards

Michel posseth [MCP]

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

A MSDN subscriber also receives the downloads on DVD ( not the same as the
reatil versions ) these DVD`s contain multiple ISO images
It is also on the MSDN developer DVD ( the yellow DVD`s ) i am currently
at home so can`t give you the number but the pro version is there in the
last shipment

I didn't see it in the November shipment.