Microsoft today has published a press release showing the pricing list of all the Visual Studio 2005’s family:
Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition: $799 (upgrade: $549)
Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System: $799 (upgrade: $549)
Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition: $299 (upgrade: $199)
Visual Studio 2005 Express editions will be $49.
Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition with MSDN Premium subscription: $2,499 (renewal: $1,999)
with No-Cost Upgrades for Active MSDN Universal Subscribers.
I’m very happy expecially for the official price of the Express Family… as promised lots of months ago, the price is low and accessible for all types of programmers. I think this could be a great chance for all the young developers to take the road of the Microsoft development: you can have a powerful development environment without a big cost (you don’t have to donate your leg to buy Visual Studio now! 
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With this new choice, Microsoft will earn lots of new developers and fans of the .NET platform and .NET people will be more happy! 