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Updated November 2015
Visual Studio 2015 provides a rich, integrated development environment for creating stunning applications for Windows,
Android, and iOS, as well as modern web applications and cloud services. Visual Studio 2015 also provides a
comprehensive, highly flexible set of application lifecycle management (ALM) tools. Team Foundation Server 2015 has
added important capabilities like Agile Project Portfolio Management, a major overhaul to the TFS build system including
a cross-platform build agent, and Release Management capabilities enabling continuous delivery of your applications.
Visual Studio subscriptions offer customers high-value subscriber benefits such as development/test use rights for
Microsoft platform software like SQL Server/Windows/Windows Server, monthly Microsoft Azure credits, a developer
account for publishing apps to the Windows Store and an O365 Developer subscription.
The remainder of this paper provides an overview of the Visual Studio product line and the licensing requirements for
those products in common deployment scenarios. If you’re a volume licensing customer, the definitive guide to licensing
terms and conditions is the Microsoft Licensing Product Terms and your licensing program agreement. For retail
customers the license terms are specified in the Retail Software License Terms included with your product
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