MSDN has historically offered a subscription package whereby developers have access and licenses to use nearly all Microsoft software that has ever been released to the public.

However, a business caught with an office full of PCs and servers running the software included in an MSDN subscription without the appropriate non-MSDN licenses for those machines would be treated no differently in a software licensing audit than if the software were obtained through piracy.

Microsoft's MSDN license agreement makes a specific exception for Microsoft Office, allowing the subscription holder to personally use it for business purposes without needing a separate license — but only with the " MSDN Premium Subscription " and even so only " directly related to the design, development and test and / or documentation of software projects " as stated in the MSDN licensing FAQ.

Even though an MSDN subscription is on an annual basis ( for retail subscriptions — volume licensing subscriptions can be multi-year ), the license to use the software, according to the agreement, does not terminate.

Expression Blend and Expression Web are also available as part of the MSDN Premium subscription.

According to MSDN website, Microsoft acknowledges that " ext that is rendered with ClearType can also appear significantly different when viewed by individuals with varying levels of color sensitivity.

The MSDN web site is also starting to incorporate feeds of social bookmarks from experts and the community, displayed alongside feeds from relevant bloggers.

He also hosted the. NET Show which was put out by the Microsoft Developer Network ( MSDN ).

He also writes for MSDN Online.

The show can also be watched for free through the Channel 9 community, and is additionally included in several MSDN CDs and DVDs.

DreamSpark Premium ( formerly MSDN Academic Alliance ( MSDNAA )) is a Microsoft program available to academic organizations, mainly colleges and universities, although there is also a high school version.

Universities and high schools can enroll in the MSDN Academic Alliance program, which provides access to some Microsoft developer software for their computer science and engineering students ( and possibly other students or faculty as well ).

An MSDNAA account is not an MSDN account and cannot be used to access the subscriber's section of the MSDN website or its downloads.

Faculty, staff, and students with CIMS account have access to free full-featured software provided by the MSDN Academic Alliance and specialized computing resources used primarily for research.

The Microsoft Developer Network ( MSDN ) is the portion of Microsoft responsible for managing the firm's relationship with developers and testers, such as: hardware developers interested in the operating system ( OS ), and software developers standing on the various OS platforms or using the API and / or scripting languages of Microsoft's applications.

MSDN Forums are the web-based forums used by the community to discuss a wide variety of software development topics.

The software generally comes on specially marked MSDN discs, but contains the identical retail or volume-license software as it is released to the public.

Although in most cases the software itself functions exactly like the full product, the MSDN end-user license agreement prohibits use of the software in a business production environment.

As an example, MSDN regularly includes the latest Windows operating systems ( such as Windows Vista and Windows 7 ), server software such as SQL Server 2008, development tools such as Visual Studio, and applications like Microsoft Office and MapPoint.

Although they aren't included in the regular CD / DVD shipments, subscribers can download old software such as MS-DOS 5. 0 and Windows 3. 1 from MSDN Subscriber Downloads.

For example, the Microsoft MSDN defines the standard icon use of error, warning, information and question mark icons as part of their software development guidelines.

* LSB Developer Network, Linux Standard Base Developer Network, meant to serve as the central, community-based source of information for software developers writing portable Linux applications, much in the vein of MSDN

* An explanation of normal vectors from Microsoft's MSDN

It is still available for download from the MSDN Web site.

*" UnhandledExceptionFilter ( Windows )" from MSDN Online.

The episodes usually start with a brief introduction from Robert Hess and Erica Wiechers, after which Erica presents a news report titled MSDN News Update, reporting on the latest Microsoft news.

It was freely downloadable from the Microsoft Download Center but is now only available through MSDN and on third party download sites.

Additional details are available on Microsoft's MSDN page.

Microsoft's MSDN is a similar site ( although it focuses mostly on Microsoft products and lacks the concentration on technology-focused content and resources ).

Microsoft's Developer Network ( MSDN ) has an article with sample code and binaries demonstrating how to use DVR-MS and convert them to WMV.

According to Microsoft's MSDN website, the default timing in Windows is 500ms ( one half second ).

A full list of MCI commands can be found at Microsoft's MSDN Library.

* http :// msdn. microsoft. com / en-us / library / aa289157 ( v = vs. 71 ). aspx " Microsoft Visual C ++ Floating-Point Optimization ", by Eric Fleegal, MSDN, 2004

Version 1. 3 is no longer supported, although some MSDN development library CDs still contain the files and patches.

The MSDN logo.

Recently, Microsoft has placed emphasis on incorporation of forums, blogs, library annotations and social bookmarking to make MSDN an open dialog with the developer community rather than a one-way service.

The MSDN Library is the centralized repository of official developer-related documentation.

MSDN Forums were migrated to an all-new platform during 2008 that provided new features designed to improve efficiency such as inline preview of threads, AJAX filtering, and a slide-up post editor.

MSDN has their own blogging platform, which hosts the blogs of only Microsoft employees.

Social bookmarking on MSDN Social was first launched in 2008, built on a new web platform that has user-tagging and feeds at its core.

The MSDN Gallery is a repository of community-authored code samples and projects.

An MSDN subscriber is entitled to activate as many copies as needed for his / her own development purposes.