System are used for other purposes, then both the operating system within the production environment VMs and the operating system for the physical host must be licensed separately. However, if the physical machine or any of the VMs hosted on that physical If a physical machine running one or more virtual machines is used entirely for development and test, then the operating system used on the physical host system can be MSDN software. When Virtual Environments Require a Separate License

The developer is not licensed through the MSDN subscription to use Windows for this PC. Project runs must also have a normal production license. Because Project is being used for production, the PC is under mixed use and the Windows operating system on which The developer installs aĬopy of Project Professional 2013 (licensed separately) on the machine to use for managing project timelines, which is its normal production use. When there is mixed use the underlying operating system must be licensed normallyīy purchasing a regular copy of Windows such as the one that came with a new OEM PC.Ī developer with a Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN subscription builds a PC using spare hardware and intends to use this for development and testing of applications. Using the software in any other way, such as for doing email, playing games, or editing a document is another use and is not allowed under the MSDN subscription license. In most situations, Windows used for the main PC (or set of PCs) must be licensed separately from MSDN due to mixed use-both design, development, testing, and demonstration of your programs (the use allowed under the MSDN subscription license) and some other

When Windows on the 'Developer Desktop' Requires a Separate License Found white paper through a link which erroneously says it applies to 2013 but in fact applies to 2015 MSDN.įrom Visual Studio 2015 and MSDN Licensing Whitepaper - July-2015.pdf.

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