Visual Studio licensing per user or per machine

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James picture James · Jan 13, 2011 · Viewed 62k times · Source

I have been using VS2010 Pro from DreamSpark. I will shortly be joining a commercial organisation who will not be providing me with a VS license and as such I will need to purchase my own.

Is Visual Studio licensed per user, per machine, or per-user per-machine? I.e. if I buy one license am I able to exclusively use it on both my laptop and desktop?

Thanks

Answer

Joel Rondeau picture Joel Rondeau · Jan 13, 2011

Visual Studio is licensed per user. You can have one installation on your laptop and another on your desktop as long as they are both used by you only (or any other user has a license). Here's Microsoft's whitepaper on licensing.

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