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MSDN Subscriptions are available at three different levels, offering developers, teams and organizations a choice of offerings.

MSDN Premium: Available to purchase with Visual Studio Professional and Visual Studio Team System

MSDN Professional: Available to purchase with Visual Studio Professional This is our offered subscription

MSDN Operating Systems: Available as a standalone Subscription purchase

Important: Prices listed are Estimated Retail Prices (ERP) in USD and do not include applicable taxes. Organizations should contact their Microsoft representative or preferred reseller for Volume Licensing prices

	MSDN Subscription Levels
	MSDN Operating Systems	Visual Studio 2008 Professional with MSDN Professional	Visual Studio 2008 Professional with MSDN Premium	Visual Studio Team System 2008 Editions with MSDN Premium¹	Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite with MSDN Premium
	New: $699 Renewal: $499	New: $1,199 Renewal: $799	New: $2,499 Renewal: $1,999	New: $5,469 Renew: $2,299	New: $10,939 Renewal: $3,499
Development Tools
Visual Studio 2008		Visual Studio 2008 Professional	Visual Studio 2008 Professional	Visual Studio Team System 2008: Development, Test, Architecture or Database Edition¹ Visual Studio 2008 Professional	Visual Studio Team System 2008: Team Suite Visual Studio Team System 2008: All Editions ² Visual Studio 2008 Professional
Visual Studio Team System 2008: Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition³				•	•
Visual Studio 2005		Visual Studio 2005 Professional	Visual Studio 2005 Professional	Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Developers, Testers, Architects or Database Professionals¹ Visual Studio 2005 Professional	Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition (All Editions)² Visual Studio 2005 Professional
Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition³				•	•
Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Microsoft Office System		•	•	•	•
Visual SourceSafe		•	•	•	•
Previous versions of Visual Studio (Visual Studio .NET, Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual J#, Visual FoxPro)		•	•	•	•
Expression Studio					•
Expression Web, Expression Blend			•	•

	MSDN Subscription Levels
	MSDN Operating Systems	Visual Studio 2008 Professional with MSDN Professional	Visual Studio 2008 Professional with MSDN Premium	Visual Studio Team System 2008 Editions with MSDN Premium¹	Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite with MSDN Premium
Servers
SQL Server, all versions		•	•	•	•
Application Platform Servers (BizTalk Server, Commerce Server, Host Integration Server, Connected Services Framework, Customer Care Framework)			•	•	•
Business Productivity Servers (Content Management Server, Exchange Server, Office Live Communications Server, Office Forms Server, Office Groove Server, Office PerformancePoint Server, Speech Server, Sharepoint Server, Windows SharePoint Services)			•	•	•
IT Operations Servers (Identity Integration Server, Microsoft System Center, Microsoft Operations Manager, Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner, Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, Systems Management Server, ISA Server)			•	•	•
Operating Systems
Windows Vista (Ultimate/Enterprise /Business/Home Premium/Home Basic)	•	•	•	•	•
Windows XP (Professional/Home /Media Center Edition /Tablet PC Edition)	•	•	•	•	•
Windows Server 2008 (all versions)	•	•	•	•	•
Windows Server 2003 R2	•	•	•	•	•
Compute Cluster	•	•	•	•	•
Windows SharePoint Services	•	•	•	•	•
2007 Microsoft Office system
Office Ultimate/Enterprise /Professional Plus /Professional 2007⁴			•	•	•
Office Word, Office Excel, Office PowerPoint, Office Outlook & Business Contact Manager, Office Access⁴			•	•	•

Our offer is for MSDN Premium Subscription which Includes:

Up to five (5) software licenses for internal-use (normal business operations are acceptable):

Microsoft Windows Vista Business (Windows XP will soon be retired)
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional

One (1) software license and up to five (5) Client Access Licenses (CALs) (normal business operations are acceptable):

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (Standard or Enterprise Edition)
Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server (Standard or Enterprise Edition)
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008 (Standard or Enterprise Edition)
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Standard or Enterprise)

Up to five (5) software licenses for Development and Testing:

Five (5) licenses for Visual Studio 2008 Professional, for up to five (5) users, concurrent with development and testing licenses provided with the MSDN Premium Subscription

One (1) MSDN Premium Subscription (includes downloads and updates) and five (5) Visual Studio 2008 Professional licenses for Development and Testing:

24 Hour access to the MSDN Subscriber Download Portal

One (1) Visual Studio Professional with MSDN Premium Subscription Media Kit DVD

Full range of Microsoft servers integrated server-software, all Microsoft operating systems, Microsoft productivity products (Microsoft Office Project, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Designer, Visio, and MapPoint ***), access to DDKs, Software Development Kits and the MSDN Library
Priority access to new product releases, updates, and betas through the MSDN Downloads portal
A Complete "IT Professionals ONLY" MSDN Premium Software List

Optional 2nd Year Renewal:

Renew your MSDN Premium Subscription at the end of 12 months for only $375.00. There’s another $750.00 in savings!

Technical Advisory Services:

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This phone-based consultative service helps you develop applications using Microsoft technologies. Services include ad hoc development advice, best practice recommendations, code samples, limited technology architecture or application design reviews.

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