VS2008 will not be around for much of 2007 itself.
VS2007 won't sound cutting edge for long if released (as we think) during the 2nd half of 2007.

Magazine vendors have long since realised that their pruducts sit on the shelf for a whole month after publication. Therefore they took to naming the issue after the month that it would sit on the shelf for rather than the month they spent researching the content.

I was frankly surprised that VS2005 didn't become VS2006 since it launched around November 2005 and would only have been capable of seeming new in that sense, for about a month.

All of this is down to marketing in the end.

Just be grateful that we're not having to call it WRCPF (Windows Really Cool programming foundation)

:P

I wouldn't be surprised if they're naming it that way to be part of the 2008 wave of products, like SQL Server 2008. I think there's also a Windows Server 2008 isn't there?

I read that 2008 refers to the financial year. I hope that doesn't turn out that it refers to a "real" year.

If that's the case, MS must have really been upset by the November 2005 release of Visual Studio 2005. :-)