That's a fair point, but I'm more inclined to think having admins the world over with the ability to deploy, test and familiarize themselves with MS products for a reasonable price cuts into their mission to move the whole world to Azure and Cloud OS. Microsoft's greatest promoters - sysadmins - have now effectively become their competition.
I've no doubt the abuse of TechNet subs was also a contributory factor though. Cheers, JR On 3 April 2014 11:07, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > They won't bring back Technet because it was being abused (where do you > think all those $10 copies of Windows and Office where being sold via?). > Those dodgy websites would buy up thousands of Technet subscriptions, and > then sell the MAK enabled products for next to nothing. Microsoft first > tried restricting the keys (remember when you could get 500 activations out > of a single Technet MAK key, and it went down to 10?) > > > > As for the Start Menu - surely there must have been people in Microsoft > with 24"+ screens, and running a metro app taking up the whole screen was > just stupid. I'm guessing this was supposed to be there all along, but > never made the first cut of the code. It's like Vista all over again - > takes a couple of years to get everything smoothed out. > > > > Cheers > > Ken > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *James Rankin > *Sent:* Thursday, 3 April 2014 7:27 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [NTSysADM] Start Menu returns > > > > So the Start Menu is coming back to Windows 8! > > Is this a new direction from MS, actually listening to what certain > subsets of users want? If it is, then I'm impressed. > > I doubt very much they will bring TechNet back to us also though....I > think that interferes too much with what they're hoping to do with Cloud OS. > > My 2 cents. > > > -- *James Rankin* --------------------- RCL - Senior Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) | The Virtualization Practice Analyst - Desktop Virtualization http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
