You can play the VL game.
Buy one copy of the thing you want, add four copies of the cheapest
thing (I got 4 cals for Forefront a/v)
You can do a open license/spread the payments over three years option.
So says she who bought a VL license of Technet back in August that is
valid for the next three years.
On 4/4/2014 9:36 AM, Free, Bob wrote:
I’ve had that for quite some time as well. Still good for another year
at this juncture.
Subscription level: MSDN Operating Systems
*From:*[email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Melvin Backus
*Sent:* Friday, April 04, 2014 5:35 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* RE: [NTSysADM] Start Menu returns
I can’t say for what’s been available recently but that sounds like
exactly what we were using about 10 years ago in my QA group. Any OS,
nothing else. They might have dropped it at some point in between and
have revived it, or perhaps renamed it, but I’m sure that’s what we
were using.
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*From:*[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Ken Schaefer
*Sent:* Friday, April 04, 2014 6:21 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* RE: [NTSysADM] Start Menu returns
There appears to be a new MSDN option – MSDN Platforms – includes OSes
and servers (but not Office). Available as volume licensing only (but
I thought buying a single MSDN license qualified for Open – not sure
about that). It’s still more expensive than TechNet Pro (and doesn’t
include Office), but might be attractive to SysAdmins (and due to cost
/ no Office – might not be as exploitable as Technet Pro)
Cheers
Ken
*From:*[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Charles Sullivan
*Sent:* Friday, 4 April 2014 2:34 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* RE: [NTSysADM] Start Menu returns
Ken pointed out the big price difference that the pirates would have
to pay for MSDN over Technet, which I hadn’t considered.
I guess only time will tell whether they are willing to shell out the
bucks for MSDN, then just sell the software at a higher price. “Sorry
folks, my wholesale price has dramatically increased. The only way I
can keep selling you software at a great price is if I double it.”
Charlie Sullivan
Sr. Windows Systems Administrator
*From:*[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Charles Sullivan
*Sent:* Thursday, April 03, 2014 11:19 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* RE: [NTSysADM] Start Menu returns
So, why is an MSDN subscription any different? Have the MS bean
counters determined that angering developers and losing the revenue
from the expensive MSDN subscriptions will cost more than the revenue
lost from the pirating of MSDN media?
Charlie Sullivan
Sr. Windows Systems Administrator
*From:*[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Ken Schaefer
*Sent:* Thursday, April 03, 2014 6:07 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* RE: [NTSysADM] Start Menu returns
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]>
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *James Rankin
*Sent:* Thursday, 3 April 2014 7:27 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[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.
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