Updated: July 13, 2020 (April 5, 2004)

Shared Source Programs

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Microsoft offers a wide variety of shared source licenses that cover a number of its OS and development tool products and are geared toward many types of customers and partners. This chart summarizes the current programs. It does not cover shared source programs for sample code, since Microsoft makes a variety of code samples available with SDKs and other programs.

Shared Source Program	Microsoft Products Covered	Target Audience	Typical Usage
Enterprise Source Licensing	Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Server 2003	Businesses with 1,500 Windows 2000 (or later) seats and Enterprise Agreements or Software Assurance	Debugging applications running on Windows
Most Valued Professional (MVP) Source Licensing	CE .NET ASP.NET Visual Studio .NET Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Server 2003	MVPs in good standing with Windows Server System, Windows, and Visual Developer designations	Debugging applications running on Windows
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