Steve Dower added the comment:

>> That's just the service pack and it won't install unless you already have VS 
>> installed. There is no way (other than being an MSDN subscriber) to get VS 
>> 2008 at this point - I've checked.
>
> There is, but you have to know what to look for :-)

Fair enough, but I can't (as a Microsoft employee) endorse that link or 
guarantee that it won't go away :)

I still think it's worth fixing distutils to look in the right places for VC, 
since there are multiple ways of installing it that all include different batch 
files.

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