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following up on this and that then:
Internet is back: so that means you become smarter but at the same time less productive.
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Let's see if Internet is still there ... 
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Where you could get access to different OS's, products, servers, tools, etc?
The thing called "Visual Studio Subscription" is BS. It looks like the "Pro" license is radically scaled back in what you get for your $1200 ($800 renewal.)
And I want to  with how they're pushing VSTS, TFS, cloud services, and training.
It looks like Pro comes with the servers, the various flavors of Windows, but not Office.
What am I missing? Is it even worth getting a subscription for solo developer? Used to keep my MSDN subscription up to date, but then MS screwed it up somehow, their Indian support didn't help, and I let it lapse. Looking just now, it looks like drivel. I want to see the exact details of what I'm buying, but all I see is the "MARKETING, MARKETING, MARKETING" dance.
The dark side is growing lighter by the day. 
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I don't know, but a couple of weeks ago all the developers on my team received emails stating that "Visual Studio Premium" and "Visual Studio Ultimate" (no mention of version, just edition) are obsolete and must be "removed immediately" and replaced with a newer version.
I assume MS changed their pricing policy.
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They've changed how licenses are managed; i.e. if you used to assign licenses via the Volume Licensing Service Center you should now use the VS Manage Portal. An email was sent out to VLSC admins recently; so hopefully someone in your organisation got this?
In addition, I believe subscriptions may expire when their parents do; so if you have a VS subscription with 2 years left but the Enterprise Agreement it was purchased under expires today, all those child subscriptions expire early. I'm not sure if this is still the case; happened to us ~8 years ago; though I think it was resolved after various support calls; so not sure whether it was intentional...
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I vaguely remember something about their intentions to kill it.
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check this image [^] you need to search for what you need to download iso / key etc thats the new change on how to get access if you paid for it. they are still releasing but they new way
there is nothing new you are buying ...same old stuff..
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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There were email and blog about it last November... It means Microsoft gives much less for the same price... It called business optimization...
I'm glad didn't payed the price for the last 3 years...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Have you checked the Microsoft Action Pack? It is not as feature rich as MSDN, but it's cca £300 / year and includes most MS software. And then (for testing) there are cloud services where you can select the target machine (incl. OS and software), rent it for a few days, and delete it afterwards.
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Tomaž Štih wrote: Have you checked the Microsoft Action Pack?
Ah, I forgot about that - thank you for posting, that looks like it'll fit the bill for a lot smaller bill. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: their Indian support didn't help
You dont say!
I tried to activate a personal MSDN subscription via India. Absolute waste of time. Useless, utterly useless. So useless they could barely speak, or understand English.
I ended up calling a French support line instead...
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Munchies_Matt wrote: So useless they could barely speak, or understand English.
I ended up calling a French support line instead...
I'm sorry sir, but I don't understand where exactly is the difference. 
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The difference is that I speak French too. 
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Munchies_Matt wrote: So useless they could barely speak, or understand English.
I ended up calling a French support line instead...
You found a Frenchman who admitted he could speak English?!  
Ad astra - both ways!
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Er, no, I gave up with the *English* helpline and phoned a French one instead (since I also speak French).
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Munchies_Matt wrote: I ended up calling a French support line instead...
The irony to that is that you at least speak French, but for some reason, you can never get a person on a help line that actually speaks English!
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The state of English in India is shocking. It is almost becoming a different language.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: The state of English in India is shocking. It is almost becoming a different language.
I suspect that's what the Brit's say about us Americans too.
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Yeah, well the possessive apostrophe does not work in a plural.
Sorry, I couldn't find a 'pedant' emoji.
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Nah, not really. American English is actually old British English, 17th century English.
What they speak in India is so badly affected by their accent and particularly way of speaking that it is often incomprehensible.
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The difference is that the French do care about their language. The Americans will gladly sell their language off to make a buck ($).
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I found that the MSDN subscription (the free one where you got the snail-mail CD library) was intermittant.
I would have said be patient the duty cycle has grown longer with the passage of you-know-what ... but in light of all these missile launches ... perhaps those days are truly gone.
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So my internet provider apparently has some issues.
Internet has been off for a while, got back on for a few minutes, and went of for another hour or so.
It's back on now and hoping it stays that way.
I was being very productive until it went off 
Pretty much bored since then...
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That's funny, my productivity goes up when internet is gone. 
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in fact all of our productivity goes up when you aren't on the internet.
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