Thursday, May 01, 2008

Expression Studio 2 RTM's Today

Somasegar's WebLog - Expression Studio 2 RTMs today!

"Last year the Microsoft Expression team shipped a new suite of tools for creative professionals. This first release of Expression Studio marked a significant milestone in the history of development tools at Microsoft, delivering superior designer-developer workflow and providing designers a set of interaction design, graphic design, Web design, digital asset management and video production tools to deliver better user experiences on Windows and the Web.

I am pleased to announce, just one year later, the team has done it again with today’s release of Microsoft Expression Studio 2. [GD: emphasis added]

I wrote about the beta release of Expression Studio 2 announced earlier this year at MIX08. Since then, the team has put the final touches on Expression Web, Expression BlendExpression Design, Expression Media, and Expression Encoder delivering over 100 new features ranging from support for Silverlight, .NET Framework, Office 2007, and Office for Mac 2008 to PHP and Adobe Photoshop import capabilities. You can learn more about the latest Expression Studio features here.

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It's not yet on MSDN Subscribers Download (Universal Subscription). When it is I'll update this post...

 

Update #1 5/6/2008:

It's available for download from MSDN, if you have the right subscription... BUT not yet via the "normal" MSDN Downloads site (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx), but instead via the Top Subscribers Download list.

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Downloading it now... :)

 

Related Past Post XRef:
Microsoft Expression Studio now available via MSDN Subscription Download
Expression Web and Blend Available for MSDN Premium Subscribers (and the Entire Suite to Team Suite MSDN Subscribers)!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

So is this new version a rplacement for the March preview for Blend. i.e. Silverlight 2 beta compatable

Greg said...

I don't think so.

The think the SilverLight 2 compatible one is version 2.5

MS released beta's of 2 and 2.5 at like the same time... it was kind of cool yet kind of confusing too...

Anonymous said...

Have you tried installing these yet? Do the 2.x versions take the 1.x keys? I got the download, but couldn't find any mention of keys.

Greg said...

Thank you for reminding me...

No, I downloaded it yesterday, but got busy and forgot to try to install it.

Will give that a try today...

Greg said...

I finally had a chance to install it on my Vista box.

I re-downloaded the Suite (long story, don't ask) mounted the ISO and installed it.

I selected all the products and away it went.

The version I had (again off the Top Subscribers download list) never prompted me for a key.

Once the install was done, I fired up Design and Blend and again no prompt for a Product Key...