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From: ab` on 6 Mar 2010 11:12 As a hobbyist/freeware programmer, I will upgrade for $299. $550 or $750 was just too expensive. On 3/4/2010 10:45 AM, David Ching wrote: > A while ago, we were bemoaning the loss of VS 2010 Standard, and the > price of VS 2008 Professional (presumably with a free upgrade to 2010) > was something like $1500 USD. > > Now there are new VS 2010 prices. > http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Microsoft-Offers-Deals-for-Visual-Studio-2010-Retail-Customers-550413/ > > > Basically if you have VS 2005/2008 Standard, you can get VS2010 Standard > for $299. And even if you are totally new to VS, you can get VS2010 > Professional for $799 and upgrade for $549. And Professional now comes > with MSDN Essentials. So the prices are much cheaper than we had been > led to believe. > > -- David
From: Alexander Grigoriev on 6 Mar 2010 12:00 "Hector Santos" <sant9442(a)nospam.gmail.com> wrote in message news:ewh$nZRvKHA.4752(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > > I don't know, it makes you wonder what/who is influencing these decisions > and the justifications. As always, I will need to blame someone, I blame > Ray Ozzie. :) > Remember, he's the Lotus Notes father! The worst email client ever.
From: Hector Santos on 6 Mar 2010 13:38 Alexander Grigoriev wrote: > "Hector Santos" <sant9442(a)nospam.gmail.com> wrote in message > news:ewh$nZRvKHA.4752(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> I don't know, it makes you wonder what/who is influencing these decisions >> and the justifications. As always, I will need to blame someone, I blame >> Ray Ozzie. :) >> > > Remember, he's the Lotus Notes father! The worst email client ever. Right. This "notes" mentality is obviously influencing the direction of Windows OS and development tools. -- HLS
From: BobF on 6 Mar 2010 18:11 Alexander Grigoriev wrote: > "Hector Santos" <sant9442(a)nospam.gmail.com> wrote in message > news:ewh$nZRvKHA.4752(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> I don't know, it makes you wonder what/who is influencing these decisions >> and the justifications. As always, I will need to blame someone, I blame >> Ray Ozzie. :) >> > > Remember, he's the Lotus Notes father! The worst email client ever. > > I thought the worst was cc:Mail? :-)
From: Bo Persson on 7 Mar 2010 04:27
Alexander Grigoriev wrote: > "Hector Santos" <sant9442(a)nospam.gmail.com> wrote in message > news:ewh$nZRvKHA.4752(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> >> I don't know, it makes you wonder what/who is influencing these >> decisions and the justifications. As always, I will need to blame >> someone, I blame Ray Ozzie. :) >> > > Remember, he's the Lotus Notes father! The worst email client ever. That's because it isn't an email client, but a GroupWare platform that just happens to do email on the side. :-) Bo Persson |