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Microsoft to shut down TechNet subscription service

Good night, TechNet.

The online Technet blogs and customer support forums will live on, but Microsoft announced today in a letter to subscribers that it plans to retire its venerable TechNet subscriptions service.

New subscriptions will no longer be available after August 31, 2013, and the subscription service will shut down as current subscribers' contracts end.

Source: http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-to-shut-down-technet-subscription-service-7000017541/

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Well, that's it then. Linux here I come.

Because Technet shut down?

What do you use it for that you can't find online?

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I've not read all the splurge but one assumes that the MSDN subscriptions will continue and it's just TechNet that's going.

Time to get my renewal in, it runs out at the end of this month.

"I don't want to know why you can't. I want to know how you can!"

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Well, that's it then. Linux here I come.

Because Technet shut down?

What do you use it for that you can't find online?

I guess I should've put one of these at the end: biggrin.png

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I've not read all the splurge but one assumes that the MSDN subscriptions will continue and it's just TechNet that's going.

Time to get my renewal in, it runs out at the end of this month.

Yes, the Splurge basically says that people have been buying a Technet subscription just to get the free versions of everything, and often sharing them online.

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Screw it. When I first became mcse/mcsa I was invited to seminars. I'm only about 400 miles from Seattle. As "door prizes they always gave us a couple of valid copies of XP Pro and a copy of Outlook to help defray our expenses. Then they quit that.

Then Technet would make available valid copies of various new things until they changed to trial versions. Then nothing was free.

Well, Microsoft, I invested a lot of time and money in your system, and you owe me something for being one of those who can run it. I have news for you. Where there's a will there's a way and that's all I have to say.

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