

You get the Azure time above and you also get the ability to run an almost limitless number of development boxes as well. On top of that you get a number of other benefits. This is an awesome benefit to being a Microsoft developer and I can’t believe that it is not more well known. I was surprise because I have know and taken advantage of this for the better part of 8 years, and I was even more surprised when he mentioned that Scott Hanselman was also unaware of this. I was talking to Mark Groves at the MVP Summit and I had a double-take when he mentioned that most developers don’t know that you get a take-home licence with you MSDN. Its a licence for YOU and not just for them.įigure: Over 11 terabytes of data on MSDN That’s right, the MSDN that you company bought you entitles you to run Windows, Office & Visual Studio in production at home. Each person who uses the software this way needs a license. One person can use the software to design, develop, test, or demonstrate his or her programs on any number of devices. MSDN subscriptions are licensed on a per-user basis. Are you a professional developer? Do you get an MSDN from your organisation? Did you know that you can use it at home on both commercial and open source projects of your own!
