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Transition your MSDN Subscription
MSDN Universal subscribers may choose to upgrade to any one of the MSDN Premium subscriptions for the Visual Studio Team System role-based products. Subscribers can choose from Team Edition for Software Developers OR Architects OR Testers. If you have a valid MSDN Universal subscription, please submit your transition choice at any time prior to the expiration of your retail subscription or Microsoft Volume Licensing agreement to receive one of the new role-based Team System products at no extra cost.
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Upcoming Shipment Information
Expected Ship Date: December 2005
Please note this list contains products that have not yet released and is subject to change.
- DirectX SDK 9.0c (August 2005) (English)
- InfoPath 2003 Toolkit for Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 (English)
- Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 4.1 (English)
- Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager Update (English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish)
- Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006 SDK 1.3 (English)
- Microsoft Visual C++ Tools for Itanium-based Systems (English)
- Microsoft® Virtual Server 2005 Enterprise Edition (English)
- Microsoft® Virtual Server 2005 Enterprise Edition (Japanese)
- Microsoft® Virtual Server 2005 Standard Edition (English)
- Microsoft® Virtual Server 2005 Standard Edition (Japanese)
- Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Professional Edition (English)
- Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects (English)
- Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers (English)
- Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers (English)
- Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System (English)
- Service Pack 1 for Business Contact Manager Update and Small Business Accounting (English)
- SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition – 64-bit Extended English)
- SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition – 64-bit Itanium (English)
- SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition (English)
- Update for Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (English)
- Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 - v2 (English, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Portuguese-Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish)
- Visual SourceSafe 2005 (English)
- Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Beta 3 Refresh (English)
- Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite (DVD) (English)
- Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Trial Edition (DVD) (English)
- Volume Shadow Copy Service SDK 7.2 (English)
- Windows Server 2003 Standard and Enterprise Editions with Service Pack 1 (Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Turkish)
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Writing ISO files to CD-R Most CD-R writing software includes a feature to create a CD from an image file. Below are instructions for some popular applications:
Roxio Easy CD Creator
- From the File menu, choose Create CD from image file. Roxio Easy CD Creator assumes the file extension is .CIF so enter the full path and filename, or rename the .ISO file to .CIF.
ISO Recorder
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How do I know which Visual Studio Team System version is right for me?
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New in Subscriber Downloads
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It's launch day! Longtime musical group Cheap Trick opened up this morning's launch of Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006 with an updated rendition of “Hello There” before turning over the floor to Steve Ballmer to introduce this long-awaited trio of products.
As an MSDN subscriber, you’ve likely already downloaded and sampled the new Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 releases and have helped to make this the largest launch ever for MSDN Subscriber Downloads with over 115 terabytes served up over its first weekend of availability. Thank you!
If you haven’t yet had an opportunity to download the software, system loads have ebbed a bit and we welcome you to download the software and try it out. For those of you waiting for your media shipment to try it out, I’m pleased to confirm that both Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 will ship to active MSDN Professional and MSDN Premium subscribers (including former MSDN Enterprise and MSDN Universal subscribers) as part of your December 2005 shipment.
We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming launch event. For additional information or to register, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/events/2005launchevents/default.mspx. Are you ready?
Best regards,
Seth Adams
Program Manager, MSDN Subscriptions
Posted on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:49:00 GMT
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