Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN

"Provide an integrated environment of tools and server infrastructure"

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate provides an integrated environment of tools and server infrastructure that simplifies the entire application development process. Deliver business results using productive, predictable, customizable processes and increase transparency and traceability throughout the lifecycle with detailed analytics. Whether creating new solutions or enhancing existing applications unleash your creativity with powerful prototyping, architecture and development tools that let you bring your vision to life targeting an increasing number of platforms and technologies including cloud and parallel computing. Realize increased team productivity by utilizing advanced collaboration features and use integrated testing and debugging tools to find and fix bugs quickly and easily creating high quality solutions while driving down the cost of solution development.

• Offers a comprehensive suite of application lifecycle management tools for teams to ensure quality results from design to deployment
• Simplifies solution development, lowering risk and increasing return, while providing tools for every stage of the lifecycle, from design and development through test and deployment
• Helps you deliver business results using productive, predictable, customizable processes while increasing transparency and traceability throughout the lifecycle with detailed analytics
• Bring your vision to life by targeting an increasing number of platforms and technologies, including cloud and parallel computing
• Realize increased team productivity by utilizing advanced collaboration features and use integrated testing and debugging tools to find and fix bugs quickly and easily
• Provides an integrated environment where developers can use existing skills to model, code, debug, test, and deploy a growing number of application types
• Simplifies common tasks and helps all team members explore the depth of the platform and partner community
• Includes Expression Studio 3 which allows you to prototype your ideas quickly and bring your projects to life
• Get comprehensive support with a 12-month MSDN subscription (see Before you buy for details)
• If you're interested in buying more than five copies, or if you would like to purchase from a local reseller

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
• Required Processor - 1.6 GHz or faster
• Recommended Memory - 1 GB (32 bit) or 2 GB (64 bit) RAM (add 512 MB if running in a virtual machine)
• Required Memory - 1024 MB RAM (1.5 GB if running in a virtual machine)
• Required Hard Disk Space - 3 GB (5400 RPM)
• Required Media Drive - DVD-ROM
• Required Video Card - DirectX 9 capable video card running at 1024 x 768 or higher-resolution display
• Required Operating System - Windows 7 (both 32 & 64 bit versions, excluding Starter). Additional versions of Windows are supported, please see Other below for the full requirements.


BEFORE YOU BUY
12-month subscription to MSDN includes access to the following:
• Visual Studio Team Foundation 2010 Server and one (1) Client Access License
• Microsoft Expression Studio 3
• Production use of Office Professional Plus 2010, Project Professional 2010, and Visio Premium 2010
• Windows Azure
• Windows and Windows Server operating systems
• Microsoft DynamicsMicrosoft SQL ServerFour (4) technical support incidents
• Two (2) E-learning collections
• Priority support in MSDN forums
• MSDN Flash newsletter
• MSDN Magazine
• Online Concierge