Microsoft has announced yesterday that Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL server 2008 will all be released on 27 February 2008 at an event in Los Angeles.
In anticipation for the most significant Microsoft enterprise event in the next year, Turner announced that Windows Server® 2008, Visual Studio® 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server™ 2008 will launch together at an event in Los Angeles on Feb. 27, 2008, kicking off hundreds of launch events around the world.
That confirmed my guess that the release of Visual Studio would not happen this year, rather at the beginning of the next.
You can read the official announcement here.
That’s the date for the launch event, not the release date. VS2008 will be release sooner, probably in Dec or Jan.