Hi, On 25/01/2023 14:44, Adam Light wrote:
What I also didn't know is that if you've purchased the licence for a given VS, you're not entitled to the upgrade to the next. I know this is how it used to be with Microsoft Office back in the 90s and even the old Visual Studios, but I thought this practice was long gone. You can upgrade Windows for free, after all.There are a lot of different licensing schemes for Visual Studio, so I would not be surprised if what you said is true for some people.I purchased a single-user perpetual license to VS 2019 through the Microsoft Store several years ago and was not eligible for a free upgrade (or low-cost upgrade) to VS 2022, as far as I could tell. In fact, after VS 2022 was officially released, it was not even possible to purchase a perpetual license on the MS store. I had to file a bug report with the VS project and have that percolate through several layers of bureaucracy for about a month before I could even give MS my money.I think MS wants people to buy their subscriptions, not perpetual licenses. Our product's release cycle is around 3 years, and we use the same version of Visual Studio and Qt for that period, so the subscription doesn't pay off for us.
If you have more than a couple of developers using Microsoft tools it might be worth becoming a "Microsoft Solution Partner" (or something similar) - it usually starts making sense if you have 10-15 devs in the company. AFAIR two developers need to get a Microsoft Certificate (if you are consulting or target the MS product market it makes for nice advertisement anyway) and I don't know how much you have to pay for the "privilege" of calling yourself a "partner". It comes with a certain number of licenses for all the fancy Enterprisy tools (some are worth it, others are worse sh*t), including all versions of Visual Studio. With a setup like this you can simply assign an admin to watch over the budget of licenses and skip the bureaucrazy.
Konrad
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