--- title: "VS 2005 Pricing and Licensing (sucks)" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/3/22/vs-2005-pricing-and-licensing-sucks.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/3/22/vs-2005-pricing-and-licensing-sucks.html" published: "2005-03-22T19:04:00" updated: "2005-03-22T19:04:00" tags: ["Off Topic"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "[ Update : You can go vote against this licensing scheme in the Microsoft feedback center, thanks to Jordan T.] It's bad enough that Unit Testing will not be included in all versions of Visual Studio (like Microsoft…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # VS 2005 Pricing and Licensing (sucks) By Roy Osherove March 22, 2005 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) **Historical article** · Originally published March 22, 2005; technical details may be outdated. \[**Update**: You can [go vote against this licensing scheme](http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/viewfeedback.aspx?feedbackid=dd52c799-e450-4eac-b69f-75995517fb33) in the Microsoft feedback center, thanks to Jordan T.\] It's bad enough that [Unit Testing will not be included in all versions of Visual Studio](http://www.peterprovost.org/archive/2004/06/12/1379.aspx)(like Microsoft thinks only "privileged" owners can get this "benefit"), now we get this bomb. [Mike Gunderloy](http://www.larkware.com/) wraps up nicely [the whole new pricing scheme for Visual Studio 2005 and Team System editions](http://www.larkware.com/editorials/vs2005.html) . I I agree with Mike that Microsoft probably took a wrong turn somewhere when they decided that the various Team System editions will not be available without extra pricing even for MSDN universal subscribers (in fact they jacked up the VSTS+MSDN prices). Here's a good quote that sums up nicely Mike's thoughts and my own as well: _"Finally, I think Microsoft is making a serious, serious mistake in not including the whole Team Foundation Server in the top-level MSDN package. I could rant on about this a bit, but_ [_Eric Bowen_](http://scrappydog.com/blog/archive/2005/03/21/1412.aspx) _beat me to it with a perfect post. You ought to hop over to his blog and read the whole thing; I'll quote the ending: "Bottom line for Microsoft:  How can you expect consultants to recommend products to clients that we aren't familiar with, because we don't have access to them?" I'm with him on that.."_ ## More in Off Topic [All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) - Mar 26, 2005 ### [Software Factories And Regular Expressions](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/3/26/software-factories-and-regular-expressions.html) - Mar 26, 2005 ### [Desktops with a twist](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/3/26/desktops-with-a-twist.html) - Mar 17, 2005 ### [Funny TechEd video - Scott & Rory](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/3/17/funny-teched-video-scott-amp-rory.html) - Mar 16, 2005 ### [Picking a fight with a book author](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/3/16/picking-a-fight-with-a-book-author.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/