Hi Nick,
There is an upgrade price. For the Pro edition, the estimated retail prices
are: upgrade price $549 and full price $1079.
More information is available on
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/howtobuy/pricing.aspx
Ronald Laeremans
Visual C++ team
Nick said:
I don't understand why there was a $29 upgrade and now there's none. I was
using MFC exclusively during that time and so I did not even notice that
there was time limit on the upgrade (i.e. I didn't have any reason to go
looking for something that was missing). Good for you that you got it but
that does not make me feel any better. Upgrades have been available since
version 1.0 of EVERYTHING and why has Bill all of a sudden abolished it for
this product. The only reason I can imagine is either he does not think he
has to bother (ie. arrogance) or he's excercising market power (ie.
arrogance again).
William, you are absolutely right. I tried to used the free Borland
command line compiler with a free IDE etc etc but the time it took me to not
even get it near working was simply not worth it.
Key in "hate microsoft" on google and have a look at the number of hits. I
got 730,000. There's someone out there who hates microsoft because of about
every product that they do.