He also told us that although the Visual Studio logo has never changed before, a new one is here now (pictured above) 'to symbolize all these changes.' Mendlen emphasized that this naming scheme (Professional, Premium, and Ultimate) is purposefully similar to the Windows branding, and we agree with him that this is a good idea (though we're not particularly thrilled that Professional and Premium are out of order). Team System Test Edition with MSDN Premium Team System Architect Edition with MSDN Premium Team System Database Edition with MSDN Premium Team System Development Edition with MSDN Premium

'We've collapsed that to three core products.' Three core products? OK, we'll give him that, but in terms of the number of SKUs, if we're going to say it was nine, it's now four: Old Visual Studio SKUs 'Today we effectively have nine SKUs on the market,' Mendlen told Ars.

Mendlen seemed most excited about the fact that Microsoft was cutting down the number of SKUs with the Visual Studio 2010 released. We had the opportunity to talk to Dave Mendlen, senior director of developer marketing at Microsoft, about today's announcement. Redmond insisted on making all of these announcements on the same day, and while we think that will just lead to lots of confusion, we're still going to try to break it down for you as coherently as possible. NET Framework 4, the official launch of both products scheduled for March 22, 2010, related benefits for MSDN subscribers, and improvements to the actual MSDN website. Microsoft has a bunch of news for developers: a simplified product lineup and pricing options for the next version of Visual Studio, Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and.

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