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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter28-Jul-20 21:37

28-Jul-20 21:37

MS employee store does not contain anything development related - Windows, Office, Games...

"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012

Jon McKee28-Jul-20 21:42

Jon McKee

28-Jul-20 21:42

enhzflep28-Jul-20 23:54

enhzflep

28-Jul-20 23:54

Icons too?

Daniel Pfeffer29-Jul-20 1:52

Daniel Pfeffer

29-Jul-20 1:52

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
MS employee store does not contain anything development related

Is that because MS employees are not allowed to develop anything? Big Grin | :-D

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.

Sander Rossel29-Jul-20 1:10

Sander Rossel

29-Jul-20 1:10

Jon McKee wrote:
I'd probably pick up a VS license so I could sell software without the revenue cap tied to the free editions

Visual Studio wrote:[^]
Usage
For individuals
Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.

For organizations
An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.

For all other usage scenarios:
In non-enterprise organizations, up to five users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or >$1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.

You make more than $1 Million US Dollars a year? OMG | :OMG:

Please teach me! Big Grin | :-D

The Community Edition misses some of the Pro and Enterprise features, but personally I never actually missed them.

Personally, I use the Community Edition for my own business.
I'll upgrade once I hit that five user maximum, 250 PCs or $1 million maximum Wink | ;)

Best,
Sander

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Jon McKee29-Jul-20 12:45

Jon McKee

29-Jul-20 12:45

Haha, no, but you never know! I don't really sell anything at the moment. My stuff in my personal time ends up open source.

I'd really just like to play around with some of the Enterprise features like some of the advanced debugging tools.

Garth J Lancaster28-Jul-20 22:40

Garth J Lancaster

28-Jul-20 22:40

if it's coming

Quote:
from their employee store...

then it's certainly better than a potentially dodgy OEM one, so YES

CodeWraith28-Jul-20 22:56

CodeWraith

28-Jul-20 22:56

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
There is not much there for a ~~developer~~ anyone with a brain to be honest...

Had to fix that. I`m just taking apart my dead PC and I think the replacement will never even know that Mickeysoft exists at all. By now they would have to pay me money to even look at their stuff. If they really want to control my computer, then I let them pay rent.

I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.

His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

modified 29-Jul-20 6:46am.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter29-Jul-20 0:20

29-Jul-20 0:20

I remember AoE... I may pay $10 for the nostalgia... But have to check first that it works on Wine... Big Grin | :-D

"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012

CodeWraith29-Jul-20 0:56

CodeWraith

29-Jul-20 0:56

Wine? Good idea. Will I need it for Skyrim? Ahh, found it already... blah ... why on earth? (answer: because not Mickeysoft) ... blah blah blah ... download ... blah blah blah ... WineSteam ...

I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.

His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter29-Jul-20 1:12

29-Jul-20 1:12

I'm playing UbiSoft games on Fedora using Wine... so far all I have (4) works good

"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012

dandy7229-Jul-20 4:14

dandy72

29-Jul-20 4:14

Until your friends and relatives start asking you "WTF are these Libre Office files you keep sending me? The layout is all messed up when I open them with Word".

(been there, done that--but on the recipient side, as the sender was an avid "anti-everything MS")

David Crow29-Jul-20 2:51

David Crow

29-Jul-20 2:51

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
What would you buy?

Back when I had MVP status, I purchased clothes, one or two software titles, a few books, and some office trinkets. Toward the end, I ran out of stuff that I was even the least bit interested in, and just let the credit expire.

"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson

"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles

dandy7229-Jul-20 4:06

dandy72

29-Jul-20 4:06

Forget software - get a mouse and keyboard. This is where the discounted prices make it worthwhile.

I remember 2+ decades ago the company I worked for got special pricing for both hardware and software. This is roughly the year where MS's first ergonomic keyboard came out. A large number of items were $21, and I believe that's what I had paid for it; no local store could match it.

Oh, and Flight Sim. I had always wanted to learn to use it, but not badly enough to pay full price. I still have probably not logged more than 4 hours with it...and now there's finally a new one coming out soon...?

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter29-Jul-20 5:41

29-Jul-20 5:41

No hardware...

"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012

Gerry Schmitz29-Jul-20 9:27

29-Jul-20 9:27

Visio Professional.

Software design and presentations ... and landscaping, deck design, etc.

It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

Chris Maunder30-Jul-20 7:53

Chris Maunder

30-Jul-20 7:53

A coffee mug?

cheers
Chris Maunder

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter30-Jul-20 10:45

The Clown Show known as Microsoft

30-Jul-20 10:45

I can send you 6 licenses of Win10 fro one CP coffee mug Laugh | :laugh:

"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012

SUCCESS IS . . .

W∴ Balboos, GHB28-Jul-20 7:22

W∴ Balboos, GHB

28-Jul-20 7:22

SUCCESS:
At age 4, success is . . . not piddling in your pants.
At age 12, success is . . . having friends.
At age 17, success is . . . having a driver’s license.
At age 35, success is . . . having money.
At age 50, success is . . . having money.
At age 70, success is . . . having a driver’s license.
At age 75, success is . . . having friends.
At age 80, success is . . . not piddling in your pants.

(Copied from Royal Arch Mason Magazine - attributed to anonymous).

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

Re: SUCCESS IS . . .

JohnWong628-Jul-20 19:43

JohnWong6

28-Jul-20 19:43

at age 70, do not need to go to hospital

Gerry Schmitz28-Jul-20 5:48

28-Jul-20 5:48

Started my MS Surface Go (from sleep) today; MS was busy the previous night with the "new Edge" updates (There is already Edge on the device so why it should be "new"?)

After logging in, the first thing is you get some Office / Edge update prompts ... except they're full screen / scaled wrong: no close buttons ... no buttons, period. Can't slide, scroll, whatever.

Rebooting gets you through as series of updates until you just get Edge prompts ... ignore, ignore, ignore.

Other stuff now seems OK, except Edge ... incapable of adapting to screen resolution. So "big", it's unusable.

(Did my grandma get all that?)

It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

Daniel Pfeffer28-Jul-20 6:14

Daniel Pfeffer

28-Jul-20 6:14

Gerry Schmitz wrote:
Started my MS Surface Go

First mistake - buying hardware from MS. Sigh | :sigh:

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.

Gerry Schmitz28-Jul-20 6:57

28-Jul-20 6:57

The device is great; it's the MS update (and verification) process. Obviously didn't test their changes on their own devices.

It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

Roland M Smith28-Jul-20 7:41

Roland M Smith

28-Jul-20 7:41

New Edge is the Chromium based version that is replacing the original Edge.

Gerry Schmitz28-Jul-20 7:50