Hi Folks, I have a few post today, so beware! Anyway ... the time of the dreaded biannual event will arrive next month when my 2-year MSDN subscription will expire. In May 2013 I purchased the Premium level via Harris Technology for about $3600. A quote yesterday says it's now AU$4118 for the Premium and $1496 for Pro. This is an alarming jump in price, and sadly I think I'll have to drop back to Pro level. To confuse matters, I received a re-subscription reminder (pasted below FYI) which is teasing us to go Premium for a 50% discount and/or a free upgrade to Ultimate. All the offers and choices are giving me a headache, so I'd love to hear from anyone who has advice on how I can renew for the best possible value.
Thanks *Greg K* ======================== Also, I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you some news around the next version, Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 and an opportunity to leverage a special offer we have in the market. The new Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 IDE is the successor to both Visual Studio Premium 2013 and Visual Studio Ultimate 2013. It will be sold as Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN, a new MSDN subscription that includes everything previously offered as part of Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN, plus all the new Visual Studio 2015 capabilities. All active Visual Studio Premium with MSDN subscribers will be *automatically upgraded* for free to *Visual Studio Enterprise when Visual Studio 2015 is released*. Active Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN subscribers will be automatically transitioned to Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN as well. We are launching a campaign to highlight how there’s never been a better time to buy Visual Studio: · *Customers can upgrade to Visual Studio Premium with MSDN in May and June at 50% off the normal upgrade price in most Volume Licensing programs.* · All Visual Studio Premium with MSDN subscribers who are active when we release Visual Studio 2015 will automatically be upgraded—for FREE—to Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN, for the remainder of their subscription term. · We are lowering the price of Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN across all channels by May 1, to match Visual Studio Premium with MSDN pricing. This will enable more customers to access our top-end tooling, even before we release Visual Studio 2015.
