MSDN Subscription and VS 11
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Hi, I am not able to convince my boss to give me an MSDN Subscription, so i'm thinking of buying one myself at home. If i buy VS10 Professional with MSDN do I get to upgrade to vs11 for free, or do I have to buy an upgrade? Do all updates of existing MS Products come free of charge?, so I can get windows 8, next version of Office, Expression Studio and Windows server 2012/MS SQL server 2012? Will I be able to install these products both at my home computer and at my work computer? Best regards, QzRz
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Hi, I am not able to convince my boss to give me an MSDN Subscription, so i'm thinking of buying one myself at home. If i buy VS10 Professional with MSDN do I get to upgrade to vs11 for free, or do I have to buy an upgrade? Do all updates of existing MS Products come free of charge?, so I can get windows 8, next version of Office, Expression Studio and Windows server 2012/MS SQL server 2012? Will I be able to install these products both at my home computer and at my work computer? Best regards, QzRz
Thats exactly how it works, if an applicable product upgrade is released during your license term you then yes you get a license for the new version as well. Once your license runs out (and if you don't renew) your existing licenses are still valid (I think theres a few exceptions to this though.) Something you should know is that most stuff is licensed for "development and testing only", obviously that depends on how you read into that though :) <edit> For more info on how the licensing works check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/cc150618.aspx[^]. If you want Office it's only available on the Premium subscription. </edit>
Gavin Taylor