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Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 -- Order it for Free

Just an FYI, if you’re not an MSDN subscriber (or don’t feel like waiting for the 3+ gig file to download), you can order the entire Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 Team Suite release for free from the MS website.  By free, I mean no charge, and no shipping/handling charge either.  Zip.  Zilch.  Nada.  I’ve always had to pay at least a shipping/handling charge for other beta/preview software from MS.  And it’s shipping with a GoLive license (meaning you can hit the ground running and start coding up production stuff if you so wish)…sounds like a good deal to me.
Posted Apr 17 2005, 11:23 PM by Jayson Knight
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Shannon J Hager wrote re: Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 -- Order it for Free
on 04-18-2005 5:29 PM
I guess they changed their minds about the shipping&handling. It was $6 when I tried it.

They also only offered the Team Edition, I don't plan on using that at all, so I decided to pass.

Have you installed yet? When does Beta 2 expire?
Jayson Knight wrote re: Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 -- Order it for Free
on 04-19-2005 2:25 AM
I just checked the website; looks like it's still free (the site says as much at least), didn't click through so maybe they're having some glitches. Haven't installed it yet, was gonna wait and see what the blogosphere had to say about it first (plus I don't have a VPC image set up yet for it). I dl'd the standard edition before I realized that I could order the entire Team Suite for free; I'm assuming you can pick and choose what you want to install so I still think it'd be worth it to order it.
Shannon J Hager wrote re: Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 -- Order it for Free
on 04-19-2005 7:59 AM
I just checked again, it is free until after you confirm your order, then they add the $5.99 shipping and tax, the total was $6.44 or something like that.

I'll definitely hold off until I know the expiration specifics on this (don't want to get stuck with a project I can't work on because my VS and SQL Server Betas expired).
Shannon J Hager wrote re: Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 -- Order it for Free
on 04-19-2005 8:05 AM
WOW.

I just ran through the process yet again (fourth time in the last 24 hours) but this time I did something slightly different.

I left one of the "you may contact me via" boxes checked. Each time before, I unchecked them all. This time I left "work address" checked.


And this time there was no shipping and handling added.

hhmmmm....
Jayson Knight wrote re: Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 -- Order it for Free
on 04-19-2005 11:43 AM
Ok that's indeed a little strange...guess you do actually have to pay for it somehow. Good catch.

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