Is Visual Studio 2005 delayed?

Hmm...after logging into the VSIP members' site, I saw the following announcement regarding the availability of VS 2005 Beta 1:

The Visual Studio Beta 1 has released and is available for download by MSDN subscribers. We will also send you CDs containing the beta. Due to the additional manufacturing and shipping time, you should expect to receive the CDs by mid-July. You will be able to use this SDK to program against Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1.

In order to help you speed up your development process against Beta 1, we have scheduled a Developer Lab from July 26th to July 29th on Redmond campus. Your company’s VSIP technical contact should have received an email invite. If you have any questions or would like to RSVP, please send email to lank@microsoft.com.

If the CDs and Developer Lab are going to be delivered mid and late-July respectively, I don't expect Microsoft to release Visual Studio 2005 on the middle of 2005 (which was the originally announced by MSFT). Now, it just makes sense that VS 2005 will ship at the same time as SQL Server 2005.

Can anyone from the VS team verify this?

A guy I know was in Redmond last week and told me that VS 2005 had slipped and now won't ship til the 3rd quarter.

Beta 1 was shipped this past summer, they're prepping Beta 2 and will be out late this year, early next year. BTW, I don't work fro MS, I just know because I had installed Beta 1

What are you talking about?  Beta 1 has been out for months.

I think that it's July 2004 and not 2005. I had beta1 installed months ago, and had downloaded at least one if not two refresh versions since then.

That said, vs2005 is slightly delayed, but we don't know how much. Most of the people expect it to ship some time during summer 2005.

False alarm guys. Sorry about that.