Visual Studio Premium with MSDN customers also will be able to keep their current pricing through the end of the year and not be required to pay more to move to the new Enterprise SKU.
(Microsoft also will continue to make available Visual Studio Professional, Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Server Express, Visual Studio Express and MSDN Platforms as a part of the "complete Visual Studio 2015 and MSDN portfolio.")Īfter focusing on smaller and open-source developers in recent months, Microsoft is now turning its sights on the enterprise developers by introducing the new Enterprise SKU, officials said.ĭevelopers who have active Visual Studio Premium with MSDN or Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN subscriptions will get an automatic upgrade to the new Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN. (The Visual Studio Community SKU is aimed at individual developers and developers in small shops.)
The new The Enterprise version will be complemented by Visual Studio Professional with MSDN and the free Visual Studio Community SKUs. Microsoft is combining Visual Studio Premium and Visual Studio Ultimate into a new single bundle called Visual Studio Enterprise with Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN). Going forward, there will be three main Visual Studio 2015 versions coming this year, compared to the four currently in market. Net Framework? Oh, wait - that happened years ago, at least for the base libraries.Although the company won't be releasing Visual Studio 2015 until some time this summer, officials are going public now with the planned pricing and SKU line-up for Visual Studio 2015.Īs of today, March 31, Microsoft is updating and consolidating its Visual Studio SKUs. (Clearly, the Microsoft that added Git support to Visual Studio is not your father's Microsoft ditto for support of Python, JavaScript, and jQuery. The biggest ALM win from my point of view is that Visual Studio now supports Git in addition to Team Foundation Server's native version control. Let's start with the new ALM features in Visual Studio 2013, which is where we thought we'd see the focus of this release back in June. In short, Visual Studio 2013 brings not only a number of big improvements tailored to development teams, but also many smaller ones that will actually matter to working developers. You'll also find significantly better tooling for Web development with ASP.Net, as well as better support for JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Python editing and debugging.
The new release sports big improvements in application lifecycle management (ALM), including the ability to build, test, and deploy in the cloud via the new Team Foundation Service and integration with Windows Azure.
The closest I can think of would be Embarcadero All-Access XE, which is more of a suite than a unified product. While there are competitors for almost every area where Visual Studio provides a solution, no single product competes with Visual Studio in all fields. Visual Studio users can fall into a range of categories (developers, testers, architects, and so on) and use a range of technologies (desktop, Web, cloud, Windows store, services, databases, and more).
That's exactly what Microsoft has done with service packs to Visual Studio 2012 and now with the release of Visual Studio 2013.
What do you do when you have a market-dominating product built from more than 50 million lines of code with a loyal customer base of subscribers who use it all day, every day, and you want to keep them happy? You upgrade it for free at incremental releases to address the pain points, and at a nominal charge at a full release to address new technologies and to make major enhancements.