Expression Web and Blend Available for MSDN Premium Subscribers (and the Entire Suite to Team Suite MSDN Subscribers)!

Somasegar's WebLog - Listening to your feedback - Expression and MSDN

"When we announced Expression Studio last December, we saw great excitement from both the design and development community – excitement that is clearly reflected in the hundreds of thousands of CTP and trial downloads we’ve already seen.  Following the announcement we received a lot of questions about why we did not include some of these products, particularly Expression Web, within customers’ MSDN subscriptions.

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Based on this feedback, I am pleased to say that we will be making Expression Web available starting today to all MSDN Premium subscribers.  We will also make Expression Blend available to MSDN Premium subscribers shortly after the Expression Studio release later in Q2 2007. ...

The decision extends to all MSDN Premium subscribers, including those with Visual Studio Professional and Visual Studio Team Edition’s. For customers that have premium subscriptions to Visual Studio Team Suite, we will be making the entire Expression Studio available to them.

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Rock on!

It really bugged me that the Expression tools were not part of my uber Team Suite MSDN Subscription. And there was NO way my boss was going to pony up the funds for these, given what we've already paid for my MSDN subscription...

It very nice to see MS make this move. I feel they've listened to their community and took (IMHO) the right action.

(via AddressOf - "Community Happens")