Newer versions of MASM

[Zyth]

Hi!  I'm new to MASM and assembly in general.  I have many questions, most I'm
finding the answers to on my own.  However, I wanted to pose a few questions to
the forum regarding the discrepancy in versions of MASM being used by MASM32
and Microsoft.

MASM32 appear to be using version 6.14 of this assembler while the most current
version used by Microsoft is something like 9.0. 

Why this discrepancy?
Are there new features in these newer versions?
Is there documentation for these newer versions?
Can the older 6.14 files be replaced by the newer 9.0 files if desired?

Thanks in advance!

[oex]

Newer instructions sets like SSE2 require > 6.14.... Versions up to 10 I think are in newer Visual Studio packages and yes you should be able to replace them

[dedndave]

the license is why version 6.14 is with the package
you can replace it with any newer version you like, and it should work ok

[Vortex]

Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 1 – ISO with new ml. exe and link.exe

[GregL]

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RC - ISO, includes latest version of ml.exe 10.x

[Zyth]

Thanks for all the info guys.  I appreciate it!