On December 31, 2021 Microsoft discontinued their 2-Year Open Business licensing plans for Visual Studio/MSDN for new licenses and renewals. After 30-Dec-2021, New Visual Studio licenses are 3 Year Open Licenses. For renewals of existing 2 year subscription licenses, Microsoft is allowing customers that haven’t expired to renew their subscriptions to the 3-year Open Value license plan, as they near expiration.

Microsoft Visual Studio Subscriptions are available in the following editions:

• Visual Studio Professional Subscription
• Visual Studio Test Professional Subscription
• Visual Studio Enterprise Subscription