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Announcements

• RDS 2008 Standard Edition and CCR & DSS Toolkit 2008 Standard Edition

  Trevor TaylorMSFTWednesday, April 22, 2009 5:36 PM
  MSDN subscribers, including BizSpark customers, can download RDS 2008 Standard Edition and CCR & DSS Toolkit 2008 Standard Edition from the MSDN Subscriber Downloads page. Customers who are not MSDN Subscribers can still purchase this software separately.

• Microsoft Robotics Studio V1.5 Retired

  Trevor TaylorMSFTSaturday, March 28, 2009 4:18 AM
  MSRS V1.5 was retired at the end of March 2009. Downloads of V1.5 had declined significantly so it was removed from the Downloads server. All associated 1.5 packages have also been removed.
  
  It was 15 months from the release of the V1.5 Refresh, and over 20 months since the original V1.5 shipped. The latest version, V2.0 (RDS 2008), was released in November 2008 and supersedes the V1.5 Refresh.
  
  

• New Robotics Web Site and new R2 release

  Trevor TaylorMSFTThursday, June 18, 2009 1:40 AM
  Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R2 has been released. This is an upgrade to the existing 2008 version providing some new features as well as bug fixes and documentation updates.
  
  In addition, a new Robotics web site has been launched.
  

• Differences between Editions for RDS 2008

  Trevor TaylorMSFTWednesday, December 31, 2008 11:28 PM
  With the release of Robotics Developer Studio (RDS) 2008, the product is available in three Editions:
  

  • Express
  • Academic
  • Standard

  The Express Edition is a subset of Academic / Standard Edition. It is available for free download from here:
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/robotics/aa731520.aspx
  
  Academic Edition is free to students at academic institutions that participate in MSDNAA. It will be available via three mechanisms: Direct download from ELMS, MSDNAA download (where the academic institution makes it available locally) and Dreamspark.
  
  Standard Edition can be purchased from here:
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=133310
  
  Academic and Standard Editions have the same functionality. 
  
  For further information on the differences between Editions, please look here:
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/robotics/bb727194.aspx
  
  Please note that at this stage RDS Standard Edition is not available via an MSDN Subscription. Please download the Express Edition.