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Can you elaborate here? The VS Community license is fine for small companies, and I don't think the licensing fee is a major issue for larger companies. 'Small

Can you elaborate here? The VS Community license is fine for small companies, and I don't think the licensing fee is a major issue for larger companies. 'Small companies' being defined as those with less than $1 million annual revenue and < 6 employees using the software concurrently.

microcolonel 9y ago
If you already bought VS 2010 licenses for n seats, you don't want to have to buy VS 2015/2017 licenses for n seats if there is not some additional benefit that is perceived to be worth $500-1200 dollars per seat. Yes, maybe many, perhaps most companies don't sweat it, but the ones that do sweat it have the problem, you dig? In my ideal world, nobody would bother with using the MSVC compilers (or they would finally make upgrades free for the compiler at least), and we'd all be running the latest stable or LTS versions, and have similar standards for compiler features and performance. Unfortunately, there is a market incentive for some companies to use MSVC, and there is a market incentive for them to not upgrade that MSVC license until they absolutely must.