I renewed for a 2nd year, after which I no longer felt I needed MSDN as I accomplished what I wanted. A few months after the 2nd year expired I was invited to participate in an "unprecedented third year". So I picked up a 3rd year, but no offer came after that. I suppose I could register again using one of my other companies (sole proprietorship, s-corp, & LLC), and milk the cow for a few more years. But we have no need, frankly. We have been moving to a lot of freeware, open source, linux and java. Where we are using M$ products there is nothing so new that we must stay in a perpetual license upgrade or expansion mode. I use VFP9, which has no further upgrades, and our Server 2000/2003 platforms are not in need of expanding as we are using Ubuntu Server for new Servers. We have enough 2000 Pro, XP Pro and even Vista (as yet unused) licenses to use for test/development platforms to last us for a few more years, until Win7 comes out. Yep, ISV/MSDN did its job for us, bought us enough time to start the migration from M$ to open source/freeware tools. Not quite what M$ had in mind, but the more we saw where M$ was heading the more we wanted to get off that meat hook. I do not like feeling trapped, nobody does. Our target market may be forced to use Windows, but our solutions can be multi-platform with the right tools. So much more to do still...
Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Allen Pollard > Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 2:39 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NF] Low priced MSDN Subscription > > > For those that cant get this, I cant because I had it for 2 years, on the > msdn site there was mention of a special 2 year subscription deal but Ive > not heard anything. It was supposed to start after new year > Al > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gil Hale" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 7:03 AM > Subject: RE: [NF] Low priced MSDN Subscription > > > > That was me. Go to https://partner.microsoft.com/40011351 (use IE as FF > > does not render that page so well <g>). > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
