Comment by nightski
11 years ago
I payed $99 for VS2013 Professional, as did many others. Which is probably a key factor in why it is the fastest selling release.
11 years ago
I payed $99 for VS2013 Professional, as did many others. Which is probably a key factor in why it is the fastest selling release.
At $100.00 a pop those sales numbers would still indicate VS generated sales revenue of $370.00 million.
My guess is the actual revenue figures are probably in the $1B to $2B (B = billion) range, which isn't too bad for a product that I'm sure Microsoft doesn't consider one of their big money makers and a product line that I'm sure they also subsidise with income from sales of their other products.
I too suspect Microsoft looks at VS as an essential, break even product, but with sales numbers like that I can't believe they aren't also making a nice little profit from VS.
How did you get it so cheap? Is it an educational one that has restrictions on releasing applications produced with it?
Looks like there was an MSDN deal for upgrades from VS 2012 (expired on Jan 31, 2014 though).
http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/The-99-VS2012-Pr...
$499 is pretty good value over a year as well I found!