Sean Wallbridge
Download link to get your free SharePoint Designer is here:
So, that’s great. But then again, now that means folks that haven’t been trained can cause more grief than usual – so, as people can get into mischief, locking down the ability for Designer to connect to a SharePoint site is a worthwhile consideration now, more than ever as people go to download SPD. http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2008/11/25/locking-down-sharepoint-designer.aspx
Also, this from the SharePoint Designer Team:
Also, make sure to watch this video where Tom Rizzo and J.R. Arredondo discuss these changes and provide some insights into what is coming in the future (pick the appropriate version for your bandwidth).
· Small size video (6MB)
· Medium size video (17 MB)
· Large size video (83 MB)
On a side note…
It would appear IE8 has been fully released to production (with little fanfare it would seem?) on March 19th (maybe this is old news but nobody said a peep to me). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_8