Hey everyone,
I've had a few people reach out to me recently (or not so recently; sorry about that) about renewals for their MSDN subscriptions. If yours is expired or soon to expire, please send me the email address you're using to login, your full name, and your mailing address, and after I've received a bunch of responses I'll send them over and you should get an email from Microsoft in a few days.
NOTE: If you've contacted me in the last while and haven't received a response, please respond here. I'm sorry for leaving you hanging.
If you've never had a subscription but would like one, please send me the email address you'll use as a login, your full name, and your mailing address. This will give you access to Microsoft's Developer Network, which includes access to things like Visual Studio and Windows licenses that we can use for working on Python.
Thanks for everyone's work on Python!
Brian
On 15Aug2018 0650, Brian Curtin wrote:
This will give you access to Microsoft's Developer Network, which includes access to things like Visual Studio and Windows licenses that we can use for working on Python.
Just to clarify one thing: you don't need a special license to get Visual Studio Community Edition to work on Python, even within a big company - it's free for open source work, and has everything we need.
But request the MSDN Subscription anyway. It looks good to have a lot of demand coming from the Python community :) (plus it should include a chunk of Azure time if you need VMs, and probably some VSTS bonuses these days though I haven't checked that).
Thanks for everyone's work on Python!
+1, and thanks Brian for continuing to coordinate this!
Cheers, Steve
Brian,
Thanks again for helping here!
Two additional experience stories on why MSDN is valuable for those of working on the Python language:
Some of us otherwise don't run Windows devices, but would like to support Windows, across potentially a range of versions and natural languages — and their encodings. In particular, we have used MSDN to ensure that Jython runs quite reasonably well on Windows. (This was a big focus in the Jython 2.7.0 release in fact, and continues to be the case.)
I also used an Excel download from MSDN to verify that Jython code going against Apache POI (https://poi.apache.org/) worked correctly with both Windows and Excel; and therefore was able to write up this experience with Josh Juneau for an article in the Nov/Dec 2015 issue of Java Magazine.
Jim
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 9:18 AM, Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org> wrote:
On 15Aug2018 0650, Brian Curtin wrote:
This will give you access to Microsoft's Developer Network, which includes access to things like Visual Studio and Windows licenses that we can use for working on Python.
Just to clarify one thing: you don't need a special license to get Visual Studio Community Edition to work on Python, even within a big company - it's free for open source work, and has everything we need.
But request the MSDN Subscription anyway. It looks good to have a lot of demand coming from the Python community :) (plus it should include a chunk of Azure time if you need VMs, and probably some VSTS bonuses these days though I haven't checked that).
Thanks for everyone's work on Python!
+1, and thanks Brian for continuing to coordinate this!
Cheers, Steve
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Steve wrote:
Just to clarify one thing: you don't need a special license to get Visual Studio Community Edition to work on Python, even within a big company - it's free for open source work, and has everything we need.
My employer gave me a laptop without Windows license. It is likely the case for Apple fans as well. MSDN provide a legal Windows license which is required to develop on Windows ;-)
Victor
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