+ Freelancer devs will be 'encouraged' to develop for Win 8, an argument can be made this will positively impact Win 8 sells, albeit it will be a difficult argument

- Open source development on Windows will take a hit

- Freelancers will either stick with older and less effective tools, or will choose to abandon Desktop

- Users will tend to get less new software for their Windows 7

+/- Will not affect big corporations, e.g. gamemakers, who use the professional version

- This will provide no additional motivation to bulk of the users (e.g. corporate, gamers) to switch to Windows 8

- This will further 'encourage' piracy of VS11