I have been looking at whether our MSDN Premium Subscriptions would cover upgrading our developer’s machines from Vista OEM to Win 7 RTM MSDN.
The assumption here is that "design, develop, test, or demonstrate" covers the developer’s day job, so should cover the OS.
I have found that other development shops seem to make this same assumption.
Having looked at the MSDN Subscription Software Use Rights page this does not seem to be the case.
from the page :
"Many MSDN subscribers use a computer for mixed use—both design, development, testing, and demonstration of your programs (the use allowed under the MSDN Subscription license) and some other use.
Using the software in any other way, such as for doing email, playing games, or editing a document is another use and is not covered by the MSDN Subscription license.
When this happens, the underlying operating system must also be licensed normally by purchasing a regular copy of Windows such as the one that came with a new OEM PC"
So if you are not using the operating software install to purely "design, develop, test" read "use your visual studio license" and you answered a company email you are in violation of the license.
Is this indeed the case?
Is there a way that MSDN OS licenses can cover your day to day dev machine?
Did you make the same assumption as I did?
Visual Studio Standard subscriptions (formerly MSDN Subscriptions) allow development team members to install and use software to design, develop, test, evaluate, and demonstrate other software. Visual Studio software is not licensed for production environments.
Each Professional subscription includes an assortment of Windows and Windows Server software for testing on physical machines, as well as $50 a month in Azure credit. If you use that full allotment of credit, you get $600 worth of Azure time each year for $539, at which point the evaluation software is actually free.
Windows 10 is now officially released to Windows users all over the globe in a worldwide roll out that has been happening over the last several hours.
MSDN Professional includes everything in MSDN Operating Systems and adds Visual Studio Professional and Visual FoxPro; it will cost $1200 a year.
Yes that's the case. No you can't change the license.
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