Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview “The pre-release version of this product has expired. You must update to a newer release." Error

 

I have been running Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 preview that targeted Silverlight 2 runtime and had not used it for a long time.

When I tried opening it up last week, it threw the error "The pre-release version of this product has expired.  You must update to a newer release"  While there has been no Expression Blend 3 as per my knowledge, I didn't find a newer version of this...Full Article.