Microsoft has announced the availability of Visual Studio 2010. With a slew of new features and advancements in the product, the company expects to bring old customers back to the shop, which are still allied with the legacy versions.
“ Visual Studio 2010 is strategically placed in terms of pricing and features,” said S Somasegar, senior vice president, Developer division, Microsoft,
He added, “We have simplified the entire line-up of the product into professional, premium and ultimate and are offering 12 months free membership of MSDN program to our Visual Studio 2010 customer.”
A lot of developers do use Visual Studio 2005, but the new version will in sync with the main pain-points of developers like the interruption, limited collaboration and the challenge to stay updated with the developments.
Bhageerathi D R, Vice president and head, Microsoft technology practice, IT services, Mindtree, said, “The new product has got the end-to-end features like structured testing and reverse engineering of codes, which is a lot of time saving.”
According to partners, Visual Studio 2010 is right at its pricing and features, and availability of tools to partners even before the launch of the product, has helped them to get their products ready on time.
Mark Conway, director of development, Micro focus said, “ It used to be a tedious job to launch the product based on the beta, because the final products used to be very different form the first beta version. This time, Microsoft ‘s Visual Studio 2010 tools were available with us before thee launch. This helped us to get ready with our line of products that can seamlessly work with Visual Studio 2010.”
