Microsoft Details Pricing and Licensing for Visual Studio 2005

“REDMOND, Wash. — March 21, 2005 — Microsoft Corp. today detailed pricing and licensing terms for Visual Studio® 2005, its comprehensive application development tool set, as well as simplification of its Microsoft® Developer Network (MSDN®) subscriptions, the primary vehicle through which most developers obtain Visual Studio. Microsoft will reduce the estimated retail price1 of Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition while offering special pricing to existing MSDN subscribers for Visual Studio 2005 Team System, the expansion of the Visual Studio product line to include integrated software life-cycle tools.”

In the release, they list pricing for all the versions. $300 for the Standard version. If this includes all the base tools, like VB.NET, C#.NET and C++.NET, then that would be an awesome deal, especially if you are a lone coder.

Check out the full press release on the Microsoft Site.