Windows 7 Free 1 year TechNet subscription!

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Dave, everything is available that would normally be available through Technet as far as I can tell. I have keys for Server 2008, Vista, Office 2003/2007, Exchange 2007, SQL 2005/2008, Office Communicator 2007, etc etc and so on. I've been on my companies Technet subscription and I can't see any difference.

And I thought that the licenses were still good even after the subscription expired? I didn't know they timebomb'd with the subscription expiry. That is much more likely to get me to renew.
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Hi Dave

I have a feeling this was some almighty screw up -- but I'm not going to be ashamed to take advantage of it.
Tough on those who signed up and paid.

The servers aren't allowing any more people to sign up for the moment so this just confirms my suspicions.
I don't think however they can eject those who have already signed up and have got valid ID's however.

But this is life. I signed up in the UK to a SKY TV HD box at around a cost of 200 GBP -- a few weeks later SKY had discounted it to I think around 25 GBP.

You win some and you lose some.

Cheers
jimbo
 
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jimbo45 said:
Hi Dave

I have a feeling this was some almighty screw up -- but I'm not going to be ashamed to take advantage of it.
Tough on those who signed up and paid.

jimbo
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I don't blame you, or any one else. You would be total idiots not to take advantage of it. With that strange date in there, it almost looks like someone was playing an internal prank in Microsoft.
 
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Hurrah! It worked All I did was use a proxy (HTTP-Tunnel), still using IE. Oh, and please somebody tell me "Subscriber Benefit Access Number" is the key.
 
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It does seem a terrible deal for those who payed good £/$ for access to see folk getting it all for free .
 
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Hi there
MS definitely have got something wrong here
When the request key DOES work it seems to have stacked up multiple retry requests and returns a whole slew of them.

For exaample Offive Visio Pro 2007

Installed and activated on several machines

Here's what the request key returned

Cheers
jimbo
 
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That does look strange ! Havent tried to get a key yet but may do so see if I get the same effect this way .
Ah something else I just found whle requesting a key for Visio Pro :Link Removed due to 404 Error
 
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kevin from Chi-town said:
if this is indeed free, then i don't understand what they're asking for with the benefit access key
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It is free but that is the price you pay They are still treating the whole thing as if you had paid good dollar pound for it

The only way MS know how to think =stuck in the groove !
 
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