Visual Studio 2008 availabe to public
If you do not have an MSDN subscription, you can download the 90-day trail version of VS 2008 Team Server or the FREE Express versions:
For a great overview and links to downloads, check out Scott Guthrie's blog post about VS 2008 at:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/19/visual-studio-2008-and-net-3-5-released.aspxBrakes on for VS 2008 at the moment
If you are doing Silverlight 1.1 development though, you might want to put the brakes on upgrading to VS 2008. Scott Guthrie's post mentions:
"Two popular add-ins to Visual Studio are not yet available to download for the final VS 2008 release. These are the Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha for Visual Studio and the Web Deployment Project add-in for Visual Studio. Our hope is to post updates to both of them to work with the final VS 2008 release in the next two weeks. If you are doing Silverlight 1.1 development using VS 2008 Beta2 you'll want to stick with with VS 2008 Beta2 until this updated Silverlight Tools Add-In is available. "