Visual Studio 2008 has not been supported in 5 years. You will not be able to get any support for it from MS. If you already had it installed then it would possibly continue to work but installing on a machine is out of support.
VisualSutdio 2008 installation fails on Windows7.
Yamauchi, Shinya/山内 慎也
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Following the blog below, I retrieved the log and sent an email to v-yicche@microsoft.com.
However, an undeliverable email was returned.
Please tell me where to contact for log investigation.
blog:https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/06908315-6042-4240-a026-b1e10828da8f/fatal-error-1603-while-installing-visual-studio-2008?forum=vssetup