I have read in the past year, somewhere, that the upgrade window for MS is still 90 days, so my guess is that you will be all set. That set, getting the MSDN makes a lot of sense; or check out the partner program, which is even more software, and even cheaper.

Hank

>That is what I figured, but I was hoping that MS would have a timeframe for free upgrade.
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>>>Our group just purchased Version 8.0 for all our programmers. I was wondering if when Version 9.0 came out will be able to receive it free.
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>>I think that would be extremely optimistic. <s> You can get the beta for free, but I believe that the real McCoy will cost you an upgrade.