Team System for Free!

Just a quick reminder that anyone who has an MSDN Universal Subscription can upgrade for free to either:

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Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects

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Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers

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Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers

All of the above come with an MSDN Premium Subscription.

Customers with an MSDN Enterprise license get a free upgrade to Visual Studio Team Developer.

There is a useful site at for anyone who has any questions about how to take advantage of the upgrade.

Also, anyone who takes advantage of the free upgrade also gets access to a five user copy of Team Foundation Server. This again free of charge

Get in contact via the blog if you have any questions about this or any other aspect of Team System licensing..

Regards

Jon

Comments

Anonymous
March 05, 2007
We have an enterprise subscription, so we've got the Dev version. What I'd like to know is how to upgrade at least one copy to Team Suite in a cost effective way. Hi, this kind of depends on how you buy your licenses. Can you drop me an email (jpratt@microsoft.com) with your contact details and I will give you a call to discuss. Regards Jon
Anonymous
March 05, 2007
We find the majority of people choose "Team Developer" since they identify themselves as devs. I'd be interested in knowing how many people actually realize what additional tools they get in TeamDev when they choose it. Hi Noah, I guess you are right in that a lot of people are not 100% aware of all the 'stuff' that is included within the Team Dev role. We spend a lot of time talking to customers about the additional functionality (via webcasts, face to face meetings technology centre sessions, marketing campaigns, working with the reseller channel etc). The message is spreading, but I think we have a lot more work to do before all of our exiting MSDN subscribers are fully aware of what is on offer Regards Jon