Microsoft Announces Visual Studio Cloud Subscriptions
Microsoft today announced a large number of updates to its developer and DevOps tools and services at its Connect conference in New York. The company open-sourced Visual Studio Code, launched a free Visual Studio Dev Essentials program, pushed out .NET Core 5 and ASP.NET 5 release candidates, unveiled Visual Studio cloud subscriptions, debuted the Visual Studio Marketplace, and a lot more.
Visual Studio cloud subscriptions offers Visual Studio Professional and Visual Studio Enterprise as monthly or annual cloud subscriptions through a new Visual Studio Marketplace. Visual Studio Professional can be purchased for $45 per month or $539 per year. Visual Studio Enterprise can be obtained for $250 per month or $2,999 per year. All Visual Studio cloud subscription payments are combined on your Azure bill.
Monthly subscriptions include the IDE, access to Visual Studio Team Services (with the optional Test Manager extension for Enterprise subscriptions), and a Team Foundation Server client access license. Annual subscriptions add benefits equivalent to those currently offered through MSDN subscriptions, including technical support incidents, Azure credits, Pluralsight training, access to dev/test software, a Windows developer account, Office ProPlus, an Office 365 developer subscription, Power BI Pro, and partner offers.
We are adding Visual Studio Professional and Enterprise monthly and annual subscriptions to our existing MSDN subscription lineup. Monthly subscriptions include the Visual Studio Professional or Enterprise IDE, access to Visual Studio Team Services with the optional Test Manager extension (for VS Enterprise subscriptions), and Team Foundation Server client access license. Annual subscriptions add benefits equivalent to those currently offered through MSDN subscriptions, including technical support incidents, Azure credits, Pluralsight training, access to dev/test software, a Windows developer account, Office ProPlus, an Office 365 developer subscription, Power BI Pro, and partner offers, depending on the subscription level.
