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Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 (PC Digital Download Code)

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Woot! has Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 Software (PC Digital Download Code) on sale for $44.99.

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  • 64-bit IDE scales to any project.
  • Develop apps for modern platforms.
  • AI-powered code completions.
  • Shared coding sessions, in real-time.

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Woot! has Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 Software (PC Digital Download Code) on sale for $44.99.

Thanks to staff member SkillfulPickle7720 for finding this deal.

Product Details:
  • 64-bit IDE scales to any project.
  • Develop apps for modern platforms.
  • AI-powered code completions.
  • Shared coding sessions, in real-time.

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Written by RevOne | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • Offer valid for a limited time while supplies last.
  • About this store:
  • Please see original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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not sure who will buy this.. if you not a pro, or for small companies you can always get free community version directly from Microsoft.

For organizations

"An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.

For all other usage scenarios:
In non-enterprise organizations, up to five users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or >$1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above."

and corps probably will not buy VS from woot...
Alternatives:

Use Visual Studio Community instead: There is very little minor differences between Pro and Community. If you are an individual just get Community.
Sign up for Microsoft for Startups: Free software and Azure credits for new businesses. That includes development tools and office products and more.


I personally know two people that used the Microsoft Startup (back then it was called Microsoft Bizspark) program to start their businesses and they have become very successful. Of course now they are paying customers, but one of these business owners told me that it was extremely valuable when he got started because he was burning through capital really fast the first year.
Full VS has it's benefits. I've been coding in it since 2000. V Code is an excellent product.

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swiftsmile12
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Is this as genuine as MS Office, Win 11 licenses that pop up from Groupon and other sites?
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not sure who will buy this.. if you not a pro, or for small companies you can always get free community version directly from Microsoft.

For organizations

"An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.

For all other usage scenarios:
In non-enterprise organizations, up to five users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or >$1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above."

and corps probably will not buy VS from woot...
Last edited by mer063 January 12, 2024 at 03:05 PM.
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VS Code could be more than enough for most people.
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Quote from haobai9999 :
VS Code could be more than enough for most people.
Full VS has it's benefits. I've been coding in it since 2000. V Code is an excellent product.
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Alternatives:
  • Use Visual Studio Community instead: There is very little minor differences between Pro and Community. If you are an individual just get Community.
  • Sign up for Microsoft for Startups: Free software and Azure credits for new businesses. That includes development tools and office products and more.

I personally know two people that used the Microsoft Startup (back then it was called Microsoft Bizspark) program to start their businesses and they have become very successful. Of course now they are paying customers, but one of these business owners told me that it was extremely valuable when he got started because he was burning through capital really fast the first year.
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Not clear what the offer is... If I understand it correctly, the VS 2022 download is always free, with all features, as Community Edition. (And permitted for education or open source work.)

VS 2022 Pro is part of a subscription model, $45 a month. So, VS Pro is a subscription. (VS Pro adds dev coordination within a team, monthly Azure credits, perhaps other things.)

Is the offer purporting to offer a permanent subscription for a one-time $45 payment? Is it offering a one-time licensed download which won't get updates? Does it come with perpetual monthly Azure credits? What is it, really?

The Woot! page doesn't explain this.
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Quote from TheMentalNomad :
Not clear what the offer is... If I understand it correctly, the VS 2022 download is always free, with all features, as Community Edition. (And permitted for education or open source work.)

VS 2022 Pro is part of a subscription model, $45 a month. So, VS Pro is a subscription. (VS Pro adds dev coordination within a team, monthly Azure credits, perhaps other things.)

Is the offer purporting to offer a permanent subscription for a one-time $45 payment? Is it offering a one-time licensed download which won't get updates? Does it come with perpetual monthly Azure credits? What is it, really?

The Woot! page doesn't explain this.

I'm sure it's a one-and-done with updates for the life cycle of the product. I just checked my master document and I have keys for the Enterprise version.


Hey OP, find me IDA Pro this cheap.
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Quote from TheMentalNomad :
Not clear what the offer is... If I understand it correctly, the VS 2022 download is always free, with all features, as Community Edition. (And permitted for education or open source work.)

VS 2022 Pro is part of a subscription model, $45 a month. So, VS Pro is a subscription. (VS Pro adds dev coordination within a team, monthly Azure credits, perhaps other things.)

Is the offer purporting to offer a permanent subscription for a one-time $45 payment? Is it offering a one-time licensed download which won't get updates? Does it come with perpetual monthly Azure credits? What is it, really?

The Woot! page doesn't explain this.
**skip if you don't want to read speculation**

My best guess is that this is likely a one time perpetual license to the standard Visual Studio Professional 2022 without the extra subscription features. This is a real thing [microsoft.com] sold for $500 direct. It does get the standard VS 2022 updates, just not any features outlined as only being available in the subscription.

Where they are getting the keys from and how they're selling them so cheap is another question. Not sure if this is any more legit than other places selling cheap Windows software keys. There's some speculation in this reddit thread [reddit.com] about some Windows Keys sold through Woot! that it's simply a storefront for 3rd parties to sell under the Woot! name. Looks like the general recommendation is to make sure you try to activate the key ASAP so you can utilize Woot! customer support if need be.

The product itself likely has a niche use case as you'd have to be defined as an Enterprise per the rules stated by Microsoft, otherwise you can just use Community or VS Code, even in a for profit situation.
  • Enterprise organizations are defined as >250 PCs or > $1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue
So this might be for small businesses that are deemed an Enterprise by Microsoft that have decided not to utilize the subscription features and/or don't have access to / pay for something like MSDN keys.
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Quote from mer063 :
not sure who will buy this.. if you not a pro, or for small companies you can always get free community version directly from Microsoft.

For organizations

"An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.

For all other usage scenarios:
In non-enterprise organizations, up to five users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or >$1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above."

and corps probably will not buy VS from woot...
Yeah, it's confusing offering for sure. This isn't a consumer type software. It's for developers working with specific MS technology.
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Quote from Audiophile72 :
Full VS has it's benefits. I've been coding in it since 2000. V Code is an excellent product.
I'm no coder by any means... But trying to even dabble in VS made me feel infinitely stupid. Whooowee
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Cool deal, but as a long time Visual Studio developer you probably don't need this. 99% of what most people need is in the free version and they do update every few years so this will get out of date. Not that that will matter much for quite a while.

If you need the pro, or enterprise features you most likely have a revenue stream to afford the $350ish a year price.

For the corner case of people who can actually benefit from this it looks like a good deal.
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Quote from CptSmith :
**skip if you don't want to read speculation**

My best guess is that this is likely a one time perpetual license to the standard Visual Studio Professional 2022 without the extra subscription features. This is a real thing [microsoft.com] sold for $500 direct. It does get the standard VS 2022 updates, just not any features outlined as only being available in the subscription.

Where they are getting the keys from and how they're selling them so cheap is another question. Not sure if this is any more legit than other places selling cheap Windows software keys. There's some speculation in this reddit thread [reddit.com] about some Windows Keys sold through Woot! that it's simply a storefront for 3rd parties to sell under the Woot! name. Looks like the general recommendation is to make sure you try to activate the key ASAP so you can utilize Woot! customer support if need be.

The product itself likely has a niche use case as you'd have to be defined as an Enterprise per the rules stated by Microsoft, otherwise you can just use Community or VS Code, even in a for profit situation.
  • Enterprise organizations are defined as >250 PCs or > $1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue
So this might be for small businesses that are deemed an Enterprise by Microsoft that have decided not to utilize the subscription features and/or don't have access to / pay for something like MSDN keys.
A small business with 10 employees better earn at least 1 million in revenue per year just to pay the employee costs and overhead.

Revenue is income before expenses.

I'd say that a small business that exceeds 1 million in revenue but has little to no profit would benefit from this.

But generally speaking, the at home developer can use the community edition and someone working at a bigger company is going to get their copy from work.
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Quote from TheMentalNomad :
Not clear what the offer is... If I understand it correctly, the VS 2022 download is always free, with all features, as Community Edition. (And permitted for education or open source work.)

VS 2022 Pro is part of a subscription model, $45 a month. So, VS Pro is a subscription. (VS Pro adds dev coordination within a team, monthly Azure credits, perhaps other things.)

Is the offer purporting to offer a permanent subscription for a one-time $45 payment? Is it offering a one-time licensed download which won't get updates? Does it come with perpetual monthly Azure credits? What is it, really?

The Woot! page doesn't explain this.
The "subscription" piece of VS products is access to the MSDN portal, which you get through Software Assurance only, which is not a part of this offer. This is just the perpetual VS program with no access to the MSDN portal.

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Quote from swiftsmile12 :
Is this as genuine as MS Office, Win 11 licenses that pop up from Groupon and other sites?
They are not. There is no difference between those keys and $1 Ebay keys.
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