Microsoft drops Visual C++ subscription program

Lack of customer interest is causing Microsoft to drop their Visual C++Subscription program. The program, which required a yearly fee, alloweddevelopers to automatically receive four incremental product upgrades. Microsoft will honor existing

Paul Thurrott

January 23, 1997

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Lack of customer interest is causing Microsoft to drop their Visual C++Subscription program. The program, which required a yearly fee, alloweddevelopers to automatically receive four incremental product upgrades. Microsoft will honor existing subscriptions but will not offer newsubscriptions with Visual C++ 5.0, due on March 19

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Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is senior technical analyst for Windows IT Pro. He writes the SuperSite for Windows, a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE, and a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE.

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