Issues for Partners - VSTE Developer availability from Subscriber Downloads

Several of you have inquired or commented about what you expected to have access to for VS 2008 Editions, but may or may not be seeing.

Unfortunately I don't have great news on this at this point. The source data system that feeds the Subscriptions System does not identify to the MSDN Subscriptions system that you are a Partner - either Certified or Gold Certified Partner. This has been raised as a deficiency with the data feed I believe is slated for an eventual fix but not in the near term.

This means that Partners can not access the VST Developer Edition from Subscriber Downloads and must wait for their Partner media kits. I have raised this issue again with the upstream systems, but do not see any likely resolution on the horizon.