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expiredSkillful_Pickle | Staff posted Jan 12, 2024 08:53 PM
Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 (PC Digital Download Code)
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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...
Use Visual Studio Community instead: There is very little minor differences between Pro and Community. If you are an individual just get Community.
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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...
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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.
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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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.
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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.
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.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...
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.
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.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.
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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