Flash 8 is out!
Now you can go to Macromedia and download! Flash 8, Dreamweaver 8 and Fireworks 8 is all available for download. If you want to buy, use this link to support Flashmagazine.
Since I am Press through my pet project Flashmagazine.com I've had Studio 8 for quite some time already. Unfortunatly I got a bad case of meningitis last month so I have not been able to play as much as I wanted. Still: this is by far the best version of Flash to work with ever! Macromedia have really listened to developers this time around - it's not just something they say. Just download and start working with it, and you'll see what I mean. THere is so many small and big things that makes the Flash 8 IDE so much better to work with. The Flash MX2004 IDE was actually so bad that it delayed AS2 takeup, at least on my part. Flash 8 just feels really solid :)