Well the news about VSTS pricing is out and everyone is talking about it. If you want all these whizzy tools that Microsoft have been wooing us with over the last year then it is going to cost you more, a lot more. Plus their “simpler approach to MSDN subscriptions” is completely the reverse of reality. To tell the truth, it feels like I just caught a good friend sleeping with my girlfriend. Part anger, part disappointment and a desire to get them both out of my life.

Most of what needs to be said has already. Of particular note are articles for Scott Hanselman, Mike Gunderloy and Eric Bowen (read the comments). The only thing I’ll add is a response to the comment from Prashant Sridharan that “If you want the other stuff (which you probably aren't using right now anyway, or are probably paying a ton for as it is) we're giving you a very convenient and low cost upgrade to the Suite.” Just two points – MSDN Open Licensing has never been convenient and, as for the cost, we have already spent the money on the tools that supposedly cost a ton: Compuware (a ton), Perforce (cheap), FogBugz (very cheap).

So Scoble, I’ll be interested to see how you round up all the comment in blog-land on this one because, well, markets are conversations and it seems some Microsoft bloggers are censoring their comments sections…