It always seemed a little strange to me that the new Expression Web and Blend tools would not be available under a MSDN Subscription ... after all, they are still development tools at heart.

Well Microsoft is, from now, adding these two tools to the MSDN Premium subscribtion, which was apparently inspired by customer feedback!

As announced on Somasegar's WebLog:

"Expression Blend and Expression Web are intended to help creative professionals collaborate with developers to create rich user experiences for the Web, Windows Vista applications and beyond, which means we need to make sure both tools are readily available to our developer community."

The offer excludes Expression Design and Expression Media as they "... are not directly intended for application development, we feel they fall outside the current scope of MSDN Subscriptions". Fair enough.