Well I tried the VS2008 download 3 times now and it always shuts down at 50% or more – they use that crappy “Akamai” download manager or whatever it is called. If the connection is interrupted it comes up with a message box that interrupts the downloads and won’t resume it until you click OK. If you wait too long the authentication times out and it gives “Requested file not available” error. Then it cancels the download. It will give you a chance to cancel the cancel but it still does it. What a piece of crap. Guess I will wait until it is available on the regular MSDN.