As Microsoft Gold Partners we are granted 10 versions of Visual Studio Premium. We have 13 developers so 10 of use use Premium and 3 of use use VS Professional. Is it allowed to install 10 copies of VS Professional instead of Premium to keep everyone consistent?
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First off, thanks for referring to my post.
After reading around and talking to my MS representative, my understanding is that you can safely use Professional instead of Premium under the license.
On MSDN you can always download your highest available version and the versions below. And since the serial# is embedded it's all a matter of playing nice towards the licensing rules.
That said, I would let 10 people have Premium since it includes more nice tools like performance profiling and code metrics. It shouldn't interfere with the other 3.
Mikael Svenson
2010-04-24 17:50:11