Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sun Apr 26 19:05:15 CDT 2009
My understanding was that this subscription was only available to individuals who had successfully completed a series/single exam(s). This limitation was added as some people were taking the subscriptions and reselling the products... not particularly smart as it was so easy to validate through MS updates. I spent a couple of hours, one evening, trying to find the testing section of the MS site after logging in. I do not think I am particularly slow but I could not work my way through the various web site settings and timing-out pages so I gave up that idea. I guess that was the labyrinth part of the test. Maybe things have changed and if they have I would not mind continuing with the subscription. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 9:25 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] Technet / MSDN / Power Pack Dear Group, Just last night I discovered that Microsoft has a service on its Technet site that gives you a year's subscription to all Microsoft software for "evaluation" purposes. $349 a year allows you to download everything, including the Windows 7 Release Candidate, Windows Server 2008, etc. I wondered if any of you lot had a Technet subscription. I believe that Rocky has a Power Pack (?) subscription which is different. Some of you have MSDN subscriptions, too. What do you think of them? Have they been worth it? In '04 I found out from Hindman, I think, about the Microsoft ISV program. I was able to get a full Universal MSDN subscription with 5 licenses for Office, Windows, etc., for $295 a year for two years. THAT was very, very handy. I was considering setting up a Windows SBS 2008 or Windows Server 2008 as a Virtual PC on my system since it's got some fairly good oomph (8 GB RAM, dual core 3 GHz Intel processor, Raid 1 500 GB array). Any thoughts about Technet? Regards, Steve Erbach Neenah, WI http://www.NeenahPolitics.com http://www.TheTownCrank.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com