[Nextgrid]

Obtaining Windows Enterprise legally is tricky if you're not a big corporation. It's not even a money thing, it's that they outright won't sell you a license directly, instead you have to go to a reseller and then pad the order with cheap client access licenses to reach the minimum amount of licenses required for an order.

[rsync]

Here is a relevant thread that goes into how complicated it is to purchase:

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2167558-explicit-inst...

[rsync]

What if you subscribe to technet (or whatever they call it now ? MSDN ?) ... don't you get one license to everything ?

The last time I paid for MSDN was 2011 or 2012 but I was able to download and use everything ...

[dragonwriter]

Visual Studio (formerly MSDN) subscriptions come with purpose-specific (for software development and/or testing, depending on the subscription) licenses for lots of things (exactly what also depends on the tier, IIRC).

The usage constraints are mostly social/legal rather than technical, of course.

[skrowl]

Visual Studio subscription is effectively $200/yr if you use Azure at all. It's $800/yr, but you get a $50/month Azure credit. It's not hard to use $50/month worth of Azure stuff.

[Xylakant]

You can license the enterprise upgrade if you have an o365 subscription.