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Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Stephen Wrighton Stephen Wrighton Does TechNet include Visual Studio? I thought that was one of the big differences.

Michael Burr Michael Burr k 49 49 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I added an update to the question to address this, even buying VS separately it's still cheaper. Then I think Stephen Wrighton hit on the other big difference that may be more important. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. If you are a software shop, get MSDN. Examples:: MSDN: Become familiar and keep up to date with the latest Microsoft software to support your application development process.

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