Great news for MSDN Subscribers

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Chris Koenig

I just learned about two cool announcements coming from our friends at MSDN related to availability of Office for Mac 2011 and Windows Azure:

Office for Mac 2011 Home and Business Inclusion in MSDN

Office for Mac 2011 Home and Business, and Communicator for Mac 2011 will be included in all MSDN Premium and Ultimate Subscription Levels as of October 26. It will ship simultaneously in all languages.

Windows Azure Platform MSDN Offer Extension

We are extending the availability of our current Windows Azure Platform MSDN offer through March 31, 2011. Anyone signing up for this offer is guaranteed to receive the current monthly benefit for 16 months from the date of their enrollment. As the monthly level of benefits is greater than what was previously being considered for this offer’s replacement, we believe this is a win for our MSDN subscribers.

Below is an overview of what customers will receive each month:

Windows Azure	750 hours of a small compute instance / month 10 GB of storage 1,000,000 storage transactions / month
SQL Azure	3 Web Edition databases (up to 1 GB of relational data per database)
Windows Azure AppFabric	1,000,000 Access Control transactions / month 1 pack of 5 Service Bus connections / month
Data Transfers	North America and Europe (per region / month) 7 GBs in 14 GBs out Asia Pacific Region 2.5 GB in 5 GB out