Somasegar has told the audience at TechEd 2007 that Visual Studio 2008 is on schedule for RTM before the end of November. Huh? Wasn't the release date set for February 2008? Yes it is. There is a difference between RTM, which means Release To Manufacuring and 'launched' in terms of marketing effort. It used to be that software was not available until the CD/DVD was in your hand. Nowadays RTM means: 'send to DVD factory AND make available for download'. So when VS2008 goes live this month it will be available to MSDN subscribers on via their MSDN Subscription account and it will be available on DVD in February 2008.