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Did you know the new Web UI Builder is out? http://www.ni.com/uibuilder/ You saw the demos from NIWeek (both this year and the year before). It's an online LabVIEW-like editor in Silverlight; you can use the editor online or install it out of browser, and you can save your code to the cloud or to your desktop. Go try it, it's free to use, you only have to purchase if you want to build & deploy your app to put it on an embedded target or whatnot.

I'm just a Web IT type guy, so don't listen to me, but my understanding is that if you have bought support the new version is included and you can re-use your LV7 era licenses. How that works, I'm not sure; you should probably check with support (www.ni.com/support). Ernest

Howdy! I lead the Web Systems team at NI; we're the ones making the file available electronically. Saw this discussion and wanted to chime in with some helpful notes... 1. The MD5 checksum of the labview_80.exe file is indeed 42950520eb90d3908c74e97461480988; we've added a labview_80.exe.md5 file with this sum in it to the site for your convenience. 2. The file is definitely still available via FTP, you can use ftp://labview8.ni.com/evaluation/labview/pc/labview_80.exe - we have it available via HTTP as well for people that have problems FTPing at http://labview8.ni.com/evaluation/labview/pc/labview_80.exe. We do recommend using FTP. When you fill out the page at http://digital.ni.com/demo.nsf/websearch/1...&node=157200_US (and please do take a sec to do this, we'd love to hear more about you before you download) it will try to open the download via FTP automatically but provides a http:// link as a backup. 3. Anyone having trouble downloading LV8, please do report it to us at webmaster@ni.com or by going to https://sine.ni.com/apps/utf8/nicc.call_me?p_form_id=5. Suggestions on how to improve your software downloading experience are also welcome! Thanks, Ernest Mueller National Instruments