The long awaited release of Visual Studio 2008 is now over. Earlier this morning I noticed that Microsoft updated the Visual Studio Express Edition web site with the final 2008 Express editions (rather than just beta 2). A few hours later, Scott Guthrie announced that they released golden master DVDs to manufacturing. If you are a MSDN subscriber, you can download VS 2008 from the MSDN subscription site immediately. Retail packages will take a few weeks to get out. Of course, the Express editions are free!