Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 RTM will on MSDN within days

Rumors have been flying everywhere that Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 will be RTM (Released to Manufacturing) and on MSDN in a matter of days. Orginally thought to be on MSDN for download on October 14th, the release supposedly got slipped because the final RC build failed a regression test. Many developers are hopeful that it will be released weeks before the official marketing launch to get a head start on coding. Note that this information is straight from the mouth from the VP of Development on Visual Studio 2005. SQL Server 2005 will release at the same time as well from what we understand.It's also been rumored that many of the developers who worked on creating Visual Studio 2005 have already moved on to other projects, including a Service Pack 1 for VS 2005 due out by late 2006. There is also a lot of talk surrounding another version of the .NET Framework to be released around the Vista timeframe with a version of 2.1, killing the chance of the next Visual Studio codenamed "Orca" being released at that time.Note that Visual Studio Team System 2005 and BizTalk 2006 will be out in Q1 of 2006.