Good point. It does suck....I find myself regularly reinstalling VMs in my home lab because the activation doesn't work any more. It's annoying but the only way I can get a lot of my testing done. If only AWS or Azure weren't so terrible to estimate a price for. If a cloud provider came up with a flat rate monthly fee for x amount of servers, I'd be over the moon. As it is, the billing models for per-minute usage and per-byte bandwidth and per-megabyte of RAM, etc., really make it no good to those of us just doing testing.
On 3 April 2014 11:30, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > Yet, MSDN remains. However it's $5K+ to buy an anonymous subscription. > > > > The fact that they're keeping Action Pack, Bizspark, the Academic options > etc. seems to indicate that they're happy to keep providing cheap/free > software to people - it's just that you need to jump through some hoops to > get it (aka you can't easily get 1000 copies to abuse) > > > > Personally, I think it sucks (as it impacts me as much as it does you now > that I don't work for a major partner nor am I an MVP anymore), but I can > see why they do it. > > > > Cheers > > Ken > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *James Rankin > *Sent:* Thursday, 3 April 2014 9:13 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] Start Menu returns > > > > 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 > -- *James Rankin* --------------------- RCL - Senior Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) | The Virtualization Practice Analyst - Desktop Virtualization http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
