What are Microsofts MSDN Subscriptions?
Microsoft’s MSDN Subscriptions are a grouping of core Microsoft products with Visual Studio, SQL Server and Operating Systems among the major components. The MSDN Subscription licenses are to be used for testing, demonstration and development only. MSDN Subscription components, such as SQL Server are not legal to use in a full production. MSDN Subscriptions offer priority access to the core Microsoft software products in order to provide the tools that one needs to develop core business infrastructure, web content, business logical applications, mobile applications, SQL databases and more.