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Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite with MSDN Premium New: $10,939 Renew: $3,499 Development Tools Servers Operating Systems 2007 Microsoft Office system Visual Studio Team System 2008: Visual Studio Team System 2008: Team Suite Visual Studio Team System 2008: Development Edition Visual Studio Team System 2008: Architecture Edition Visual Studio Team System 2008: Test Edition Visual Studio Team System 2008: Database Edition Visual Studio Team System 2008: Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition [1] Visual Studio 2008 Professional Visual Studio Team System 2005: Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition [1] Visual Studio 2005 Professional Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Microsoft Office System Visual SourceSafe 2005 Previous versions of Visual Studio Visual Studio .NET, Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual J#, Visual FoxPro Expression Studio 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 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 Office Ultimate/Enterprise/Professional Plus/Professional 2007 [2] Office Word, Office Excel, Office PowerPoint, Office Outlook & Business Contact Manager, Office Access [2] Office Publisher, Office InfoPath, Office OneNote, Office Communicator, Office Groove, Office SharePoint Designer, Office Visio Professional, Office Project Standard [2] Office Accounting, Office Business Scorecard Manager, MapPoint, Office FrontPage Office Project Professional Office Project Server, Office Project Portfolio Server Microsoft Dynamics Other Tools, SDKs & DDKs Additional Benefits   Dynamics AX, GP, NAV, SL, Microsoft Forecaster & Microsoft FRx Dynamics CRM, Point of Sale, Microsoft Small Business Accounting & Financials Access Developer Extensions Virtual PC, Virtual Server .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework, .NET Micro Framework Windows SDK, Platform SDK, DirectX SDK Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0, Application Compatibility Tool Kit 5.0 Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK), Windows Installer Windows Driver Kit (WDK), Windows Hardware Compatibility Test Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 MSDN Library 4 Technical support incidents Managed Newsgroup support Online Concierge
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition with MSDN Premium New: $5,469 Renew: $2,299 Development Tools Servers Operating Systems 2007 Microsoft Office system Visual Studio Team System 2008: Visual Studio Team System 2008: Development Edition Visual Studio Team System 2008: Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition [1] Visual Studio 2008 Professional Visual Studio Team System 2005: Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition [1] Visual Studio 2005 Professional Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Microsoft Office System Visual SourceSafe 2005 Previous versions of Visual Studio Visual Studio .NET, Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual J#, Visual FoxPro Expression Web Expression Blend 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 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 Office Ultimate/Enterprise/Professional Plus/Professional 2007 [2] Office Word, Office Excel, Office PowerPoint, Office Outlook & Business Contact Manager, Office Access [2] Office Publisher, Office InfoPath, Office OneNote®, Office Communicator, Office Groove, Office SharePoint Designer, Office Visio Professional, Office Project Standard [2] Office Accounting, Office Business Scorecard Manager, MapPoint, Office FrontPage Office Project Professional Office Project Server, Office Project Portfolio Server Microsoft Dynamics Other Tools, SDKs & DDKs Additional Benefits   Dynamics AX, GP, NAV, SL, Microsoft Forecaster & Microsoft FRx Dynamics CRM, Point of Sale, Microsoft Small Business Accounting & Financials Access Developer Extensions Virtual PC, Virtual Server .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework, .NET Micro Framework Windows SDK, Platform SDK, DirectX SDK Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0, Application Compatibility Tool Kit 5.0 Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK), Windows Installer Windows Driver Kit (WDK), Windows Hardware Compatibility Test Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 MSDN Library 4 Technical support incidents Managed Newsgroup support Online Concierge
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture Edition with MSDN Premium New: $5,469 Renew: $2,299 Development Tools Servers Operating Systems 2007 Microsoft Office system Visual Studio Team System 2008: Visual Studio Team System 2008: Architecture Edition Visual Studio Team System 2008: Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition [1] Visual Studio 2008 Professional Visual Studio Team System 2005: Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition [1] Visual Studio 2005 Professional Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Microsoft Office System Visual SourceSafe 2005 Previous versions of Visual Studio Visual Studio .NET, Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual J#, Visual FoxPro Expression Web Expression Blend 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 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 Office Ultimate/Enterprise/Professional Plus/Professional 2007 [2] Office Word, Office Excel, Office PowerPoint, Office Outlook & Business Contact Manager, Office Access [2] Office Publisher, Office InfoPath, Office OneNote®, Office Communicator, Office Groove, Office SharePoint Designer, Office Visio Professional, Office Project Standard [2] Office Accounting, Office Business Scorecard Manager, MapPoint, Office FrontPage Office Project Professional Office Project Server, Office Project Portfolio Server Microsoft Dynamics Other Tools, SDKs & DDKs Additional Benefits   Dynamics AX, GP, NAV, SL, Microsoft Forecaster & Microsoft FRx Dynamics CRM, Point of Sale, Microsoft Small Business Accounting & Financials Access Developer Extensions Virtual PC, Virtual Server .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework, .NET Micro Framework Windows SDK, Platform SDK, DirectX SDK Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0, Application Compatibility Tool Kit 5.0 Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK), Windows Installer Windows Driver Kit (WDK), Windows Hardware Compatibility Test Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 MSDN Library 4 Technical support incidents Managed Newsgroup support Online Concierge
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition with MSDN Premium New: $5,469 Renew: $2,299 Development Tools Servers Operating Systems 2007 Microsoft Office system Visual Studio Team System 2008: Visual Studio Team System 2008: Test Edition Visual Studio Team System 2008: Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition [1] Visual Studio 2008 Professional Visual Studio Team System 2005: Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition [1] Visual Studio 2005 Professional Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Microsoft Office System Visual SourceSafe 2005 Previous versions of Visual Studio Visual Studio .NET, Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual J#, Visual FoxPro Expression Web Expression Blend 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 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 Office Ultimate/Enterprise/Professional Plus/Professional 2007 [2] Office Word, Office Excel, Office PowerPoint, Office Outlook & Business Contact Manager, Office Access [2] Office Publisher, Office InfoPath, Office OneNote®, Office Communicator, Office Groove, Office SharePoint Designer, Office Visio Professional, Office Project Standard [2] Office Accounting, Office Business Scorecard Manager, MapPoint, Office FrontPage Office Project Professional Office Project Server, Office Project Portfolio Server Microsoft Dynamics Other Tools, SDKs & DDKs Additional Benefits   Dynamics AX, GP, NAV, SL, Microsoft Forecaster & Microsoft FRx Dynamics CRM, Point of Sale, Microsoft Small Business Accounting & Financials Access Developer Extensions Virtual PC, Virtual Server .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework, .NET Micro Framework Windows SDK, Platform SDK, DirectX SDK Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0, Application Compatibility Tool Kit 5.0 Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK), Windows Installer Windows Driver Kit (WDK), Windows Hardware Compatibility Test Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 MSDN Library 4 Technical support incidents Managed Newsgroup support Online Concierge
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition with MSDN Premium New: $5,469 Renew: $2,299 Development Tools Servers Operating Systems 2007 Microsoft Office system Visual Studio Team System 2008: Visual Studio Team System 2008: Database Edition Visual Studio Team System 2008: Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition [1] Visual Studio 2008 Professional Visual Studio Team System 2005: Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition [1] Visual Studio 2005 Professional Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Microsoft Office System Visual SourceSafe 2005 Previous versions of Visual Studio Visual Studio .NET, Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual J#, Visual FoxPro Expression Web Expression Blend 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 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 Office Ultimate/Enterprise/Professional Plus/Professional 2007 [2] Office Word, Office Excel, Office PowerPoint, Office Outlook & Business Contact Manager, Office Access [2] Office Publisher, Office InfoPath, Office OneNote®, Office Communicator, Office Groove, Office SharePoint Designer, Office Visio Professional, Office Project Standard [2] Office Accounting, Office Business Scorecard Manager, MapPoint, Office FrontPage Office Project Professional Office Project Server, Office Project Portfolio Server Microsoft Dynamics Other Tools, SDKs & DDKs Additional Benefits   Dynamics AX, GP, NAV, SL, Microsoft Forecaster & Microsoft FRx Dynamics CRM, Point of Sale, Microsoft Small Business Accounting & Financials Access Developer Extensions Virtual PC, Virtual Server .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework, .NET Micro Framework Windows SDK, Platform SDK, DirectX SDK Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0, Application Compatibility Tool Kit 5.0 Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK), Windows Installer Windows Driver Kit (WDK), Windows Hardware Compatibility Test Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 MSDN Library 4 Technical support incidents Managed Newsgroup support Online Concierge
Visual Studio 2008 Professional with MSDN Premium New: $2,499 Renew: $1,999 Development Tools Servers Operating Systems 2007 Microsoft Office System Visual Studio 2008 Professional Visual Studio 2005 Professional Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Microsoft Office System Visual SourceSafe 2005 Previous versions of Visual Studio Visual Studio .NET, Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual J#, Visual FoxPro Expression Web Expression Blend 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 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 Office Ultimate/Enterprise/Professional Plus/Professional 2007 [2] Office Word, Office Excel, Office PowerPoint, Office Outlook & Business Contact Manager, Office Access [2] Office Publisher, Office InfoPath, Office OneNote®, Office Communicator, Office Groove, Office SharePoint Designer, Office Visio Professional, Office Project Standard [2] Office Accounting, Office Business Scorecard Manager, MapPoint, Office FrontPage Office Project Professional Office Project Server, Office Project Portfolio Server Microsoft Dynamics Other Tools, SDKs & DDKs Additional Benefits   Dynamics AX, GP, NAV, SL, Microsoft Forecaster & Microsoft FRx Dynamics CRM, Point of Sale, Microsoft Small Business Accounting & Financials Access Developer Extensions Virtual PC, Virtual Server .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework, .NET Micro Framework Windows SDK, Platform SDK, DirectX SDK Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0, Application Compatibility Tool Kit 5.0 Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK), Windows Installer Windows Driver Kit (WDK), Windows Hardware Compatibility Test Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 MSDN Library 4 Technical support incidents Managed Newsgroup support Online Concierge
Visual Studio 2008 Professional with MSDN Professional New: $1,199 Renew: $799 Development Tools Operating Systems Additional Benefits Visual Studio 2008 Professional Visual Studio 2005 Professional Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Microsoft Office System Visual SourceSafe 2005 Previous versions of Visual Studio Visual Studio .NET, Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual J#, Visual FoxPro 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 MSDN Library 2 Technical support incidents Managed Newsgroup support Online Concierge Servers Other Tools, SDKs & DDKs SQL Server, all versions Access Developer Extensions Virtual PC, Virtual Server .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework, .NET Micro Framework Windows SDK, Platform SDK, DirectX SDK Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0, Application Compatibility Tool Kit 5.0 Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK), Windows Installer Windows Driver Kit (WDK), Windows Hardware Compatibility Test Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0
MSDN Operating Systems New: $699 Renew: $499 Featured software Additional Benefits Windows Vista Ultimate/Enterprise/Business/Home Premium/Home Basic Windows XP Professional/Home/Media Center Edition/Tablet PC Edition Windows Server 2003 R2 Windows Server 2008 (all versions) Compute Cluster Windows SharePoint Services System Center Capacity Planner Virtual PC, Virtual Server .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework, .NET Micro Framework Windows SDK, Platform SDK, DirectX SDK Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0, Application Compatibility Tool Kit 5.0 Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK), Windows Installer Windows Driver Kit (WDK), Windows Hardware Compatibility Test Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 MSDN Library 2 Technical support incidents Managed Newsgroup support Online Concierge

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