Re:Staring into the COM Abyss
by ripley12 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:04PM
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I really don't understand Microsoft's pricing model for Visual Studio.
In theory, it's just price discrimination; put features that are only valuable to enterprise customers in the $6k/year version, and profit. But then they put key UX features which are useful to _everyone_, like Live Unit Testing, in the Enterprise version too.
The upshot is that they sell a few more Enterprise licenses, but the development experience is worse for 99% of .NET developers on Windows. It's such a weird contrast to their developer tooling strategy in every other area.
In theory, it's just price discrimination; put features that are only valuable to enterprise customers in the $6k/year version, and profit. But then they put key UX features which are useful to _everyone_, like Live Unit Testing, in the Enterprise version too.
The upshot is that they sell a few more Enterprise licenses, but the development experience is worse for 99% of .NET developers on Windows. It's such a weird contrast to their developer tooling strategy in every other area.