Since you are here, I want to voice agreement with prior comments on the need for an open ended trial for learning and evaluation but with restrictions only on

Since you are here, I want to voice agreement with prior comments on the need for an open ended trial for learning and evaluation but with restrictions only on making it commercial. I've tried these kind of limited time trials in the past and have found in every case that my time proved to be even more limited. Suitably restricted open ended time trials, if possible, can only help you with sales ultimately. This is especially the case for people with sporadic bursts of time limiting loads. I also agree with the criticism of the very large bump required just to use Visual Studio. OTOH, I might find that of no real consequence given enough time to fully evaluate the tier that contains just your IDE (which looks pretty nifty actually.)