November CTP (CTP5) is now publicly available!
What are you waiting for? Go get it!
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3BF4C5CA-B905-4EBC-8901-1D4C1D1DA884
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Aaron Bertrand
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I'm just now getting time to look at 2008…any major conflicts with a combined 2000/2005 laptop?
I think VMs are being made available later, but I'm not sure if that is public, or for Connect only, or for individual groups within Connect.
Anyway, I'm a firm believer in the install being a very important part of the process to test, especially since it has been completely overhauled for this CTP!
Darn, I was hoping for a virtual machine to avoid the install.
Got it, received the email from connect a little while ago. I am glad that I already installed VS 2008 now I 'only' have SQL Server 2008 and Thanksgiving preparations left