{"id":6331,"date":"2009-10-19T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2009\/10\/19\/vs-2010-licensing-changes\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T00:21:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:21:28","slug":"vs-2010-licensing-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/vs-2010-licensing-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"VS 2010 Licensing Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big news, along with the announcement of VS 2010 Beta 2 availability, are all the licensing changes that go along with it.&nbsp; I won&rsquo;t go into all of them here because it&rsquo;s pretty long.&nbsp; I just want to communicate the philosophy and the high points.&nbsp; Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/en-us\/products\/2010\/default.mspx\" target=\"_blank\">pre-sales web sites<\/a> will have more detailed information for you.\nOver the past several years we&rsquo;ve gotten feedback that the VS\/VSTS\/TFS SKU line up was too complicated and it is unclear what is the right thing to buy.&nbsp; We&rsquo;ve also gotten feedback that people want a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/bharry\/archive\/2009\/10\/01\/tfs-2010-for-sourcesafe-users.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">long term successor<\/a> to SourceSafe that modernized the team development environment even for very small teams.\nThe result is a significant shakeup in the line-up.&nbsp; The proliferation of &ldquo;role&rdquo; and VS SKUs has been simplified down to 4 basic developer choices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Express<\/li>\n<li>Professional<\/li>\n<li>Premium<\/li>\n<li>Ultimate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each includes everything in the lower edition and then adds more.&nbsp; Pro, Premium and Ultimate can come with MSDN.&nbsp; We also offer &ldquo;Test Elements&rdquo; for testers that don&rsquo;t need to write code.&nbsp; TFS remains available as a stand alone product but the server and a CAL is also included in MSDN subscriptions with VS Pro, Premium and Ultimate.&nbsp; Further the stand-alone TFS price is being significantly reduced.\nTo help transition people from the products they currently own, we are also including a program called the &ldquo;Ultimate Upgrade&rdquo; which will allow most users to upgrade a level in the SKU hierarchy at no charge when we launch.\nAgain, there are a lot of details in the licensing changes that I won&rsquo;t try to cover.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ll cover some more TFS licensing details in the next month or two.&nbsp;\nHere&#8217;s a good published document on some of the changes: <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/newsroom\/developer\/factsheets\/VS2010PackagingFS.docx\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/newsroom\/developer\/factsheets\/VS2010PackagingFS.docx<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news, along with the announcement of VS 2010 Beta 2 availability, are all the licensing changes that go along with it.&nbsp; I won&rsquo;t go into all of them here because it&rsquo;s pretty long.&nbsp; I just want to communicate the philosophy and the high points.&nbsp; Our pre-sales web sites will have more detailed information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,4],"class_list":["post-6331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs","tag-visual-studio"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The big news, along with the announcement of VS 2010 Beta 2 availability, are all the licensing changes that go along with it.&nbsp; 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