HOLY CRAP!
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Visual Studio 2012 Professional: $499 Visual Studio 2012 Professional with MSDN: $799 Visual Studio 2012 Premium with MSDN: $2,569 Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate with MSDN: $4,249
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I was getting prices for dev tools for my possible new job, and I couldn't believe my eyes - Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate about $13.3k. HOLY CRAP! I remember when the most expensive MSDN subscription was just $700, and included ALL Microsoft software products, and that was when they actually pressed CDs to deliver and update it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
I was getting prices for dev tools for my possible new job, and I couldn't believe my eyes - Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate about $13.3k. HOLY CRAP! I remember when the most expensive MSDN subscription was just $700, and included ALL Microsoft software products, and that was when they actually pressed CDs to deliver and update it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013BizSpark
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I have something to say but it would get marked as abuse in a nano-second. Perhaps a simple "Oy vey!" would suffice. That is pretty crazy - I realize it costs them money to develop, market, etc., but that is nuts.
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It's the old "Does this hurt? What about now?" trick. Keep squeezing until the blood flow stops and then ever so slightly release the pressure.
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I was getting prices for dev tools for my possible new job, and I couldn't believe my eyes - Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate about $13.3k. HOLY CRAP! I remember when the most expensive MSDN subscription was just $700, and included ALL Microsoft software products, and that was when they actually pressed CDs to deliver and update it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013An odd (and foolish) strategy. VS is used to make programs that run on the Windows O/S, which is, I believe a MS product. The more applications available for their product the more it's worth for people to buy. No developers->no development->no sales; Look at the Adobe Reader model (let's not get into Adobe, per se). Their dev tools are the product, but they're only useful of everyone can use the output - hence the free reader (&etc.). Since I don't see M$ giving out free versions of window in the near future, they should take the complimentary part of the model. Once users/developers are pushed into that open-source development environment - well, it's easier to make things that work in other O/S's. Come to think of it, maybe it would be better if the price were $75,000 . . .
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Prices for that kind of thing are what companies will pay for them, they bear no relation to actual value or sense.
Actually, that is the value.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]
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Well, for a corporate company, 13,000 an year for Visual Studio, SQL Server, Windows OSes (including server editions), Office, BizTalk, SharePoint etc. is not that bad a deal in my opinion. It's probably less than 15% of an average software developer's salary. It is expensive if you are a small startup, but they've got special pricing for startups (forgot the name of the program you needed to sign up to). Not trying to counter your point here, but just looking at it from a different perspective. :-)
Regards, Nish
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Very nice of you, Nish. :) But there is no way to look at it that makes it anything approaching reasonable. Why not ask your mechanic to buy all new tools at 15% of his wages, then have him put them away every year or two and buy them again. Oh, and that old style warranty thing that let you get new tools if the old ones broke or just didn't work - forget that. Microsoft is not only biting the hands that feed it, but mauling and raping them, as well.
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Very nice of you, Nish. :) But there is no way to look at it that makes it anything approaching reasonable. Why not ask your mechanic to buy all new tools at 15% of his wages, then have him put them away every year or two and buy them again. Oh, and that old style warranty thing that let you get new tools if the old ones broke or just didn't work - forget that. Microsoft is not only biting the hands that feed it, but mauling and raping them, as well.
Will Rogers never met me.
Roger Wright wrote:
Why not ask your mechanic to buy all new tools at 15% of his wages,
Well, it would be the company owner that pays that. I did not mean that a software dev should pay 15% of his income to buy his dev tools. I meant that a company should be fine with paying 15% of what it pays its average dev for the dev tools. For most successful companies that'd be fairly affordable. And these are individual prices, you can get bulk corporate pricing (often at half that amount I think).
Regards, Nish
Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com Latest article: C++ 11 features in Visual C++ 2013 Preview
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I was getting prices for dev tools for my possible new job, and I couldn't believe my eyes - Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate about $13.3k. HOLY CRAP! I remember when the most expensive MSDN subscription was just $700, and included ALL Microsoft software products, and that was when they actually pressed CDs to deliver and update it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
Roger Wright wrote:
Why not ask your mechanic to buy all new tools at 15% of his wages,
Well, it would be the company owner that pays that. I did not mean that a software dev should pay 15% of his income to buy his dev tools. I meant that a company should be fine with paying 15% of what it pays its average dev for the dev tools. For most successful companies that'd be fairly affordable. And these are individual prices, you can get bulk corporate pricing (often at half that amount I think).
Regards, Nish
Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com Latest article: C++ 11 features in Visual C++ 2013 Preview
We'll need a lot fewer developers, then, since amortizing those costs will make our products less cost-effective and reduce our sales by a fair amount. ;P The idea that, simply because the company is buying - or the government - makes it okay to gouge the buyer is wrong. Period. ;P
Will Rogers never met me.
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We'll need a lot fewer developers, then, since amortizing those costs will make our products less cost-effective and reduce our sales by a fair amount. ;P The idea that, simply because the company is buying - or the government - makes it okay to gouge the buyer is wrong. Period. ;P
Will Rogers never met me.
I don't agree. People sell software for prices far higher than that. Also if your company is not doing business at that level of profit/revenue, you do not need Ultimate. You can get lower priced editions, you can buy individual licenses etc.
Regards, Nish
Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com Latest article: C++ 11 features in Visual C++ 2013 Preview
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Strange, we just went through true up I saw the costs it was no where near 13k for MSDN.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
VS 2013U MSDN is $13k to subscribe and $4k to renew. http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Visual-Studio-Ultimate-2013-with-MSDN/productID.284832100[^]
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I was getting prices for dev tools for my possible new job, and I couldn't believe my eyes - Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate about $13.3k. HOLY CRAP! I remember when the most expensive MSDN subscription was just $700, and included ALL Microsoft software products, and that was when they actually pressed CDs to deliver and update it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I remember when the most expensive MSDN subscription was just $700, and included ALL Microsoft software products, and that was when they actually pressed CDs to deliver and update it.
That was before MS started competing with IBM in selling corporate BOGOware. Unless you're deving for one of the bogoware apps you don't need anything beyond premium, and depending on what your employer's other licensing agreements look like might not even need more than pro (my dev VMs get their OS/etc from corporate site licenses not MSDN). The pricing for the corporate bogo-tools only needs to be cheap compared to the competition; and I've been told the whole set of IBM (ir)Rational garbageware runs upwards of $20k; making VS cheap for the (moronic) mega-corp market it's actually aimed at.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I remember when the most expensive MSDN subscription was just $700, and included ALL Microsoft software products, and that was when they actually pressed CDs to deliver and update it.
That was before MS started competing with IBM in selling corporate BOGOware. Unless you're deving for one of the bogoware apps you don't need anything beyond premium, and depending on what your employer's other licensing agreements look like might not even need more than pro (my dev VMs get their OS/etc from corporate site licenses not MSDN). The pricing for the corporate bogo-tools only needs to be cheap compared to the competition; and I've been told the whole set of IBM (ir)Rational garbageware runs upwards of $20k; making VS cheap for the (moronic) mega-corp market it's actually aimed at.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
My point wasn't that I felt that I needed Ultimate - it was the sheer cost of the product compared to what it cost when it was originally introduced, along with the fact that there's no tangible improvement in the product.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
I was getting prices for dev tools for my possible new job, and I couldn't believe my eyes - Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate about $13.3k. HOLY CRAP! I remember when the most expensive MSDN subscription was just $700, and included ALL Microsoft software products, and that was when they actually pressed CDs to deliver and update it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013Welcome to the world of tax evasion.
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The price of indentured servitude with no fixed date for manumission is ... inflationary. "You load sixteen tons, what do you get Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store" "Sixteen Tons" by Merle Travis (1946); became number-one hit in the US with Tennessee Ernie Ford's 1955 recording.
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
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I was getting prices for dev tools for my possible new job, and I couldn't believe my eyes - Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate about $13.3k. HOLY CRAP! I remember when the most expensive MSDN subscription was just $700, and included ALL Microsoft software products, and that was when they actually pressed CDs to deliver and update it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013I just bought VS 2013 Pro ($725 in Europe before tax/vat btw) but I definitely feel it's worth it - you do get a lot for your money. That's the point with anything you buy (and sell), IMO - do you feel it's worth the price? If not, you'd probably not buy it. BTW, I bought Visual Basic 3 many years ago, I paid about $200 (before vat) for it AFAIR (3 diskettes). :)
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I was getting prices for dev tools for my possible new job, and I couldn't believe my eyes - Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate about $13.3k. HOLY CRAP! I remember when the most expensive MSDN subscription was just $700, and included ALL Microsoft software products, and that was when they actually pressed CDs to deliver and update it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013Holy shit. I'm glad I get it free for being a Student!
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