October 4, 2010 at 6:33 pm
Lynn,
Actually, I agree with you and I really dislike using SSC solely as vehicle for a complaint of this sort. However, I had more than the one agenda and I believe I heard some very good responses from other Technet subscribers. I do not expect to get a rise out of Microsoft just because I posted this here and that part was only wishful thinking. I apologize to the SSC readership.
I appreciate your remark toward the experience becoming a prevalence in all industries. However, if we, as consumers voice our disgust with this practice more, then there would be a whole lot less of it. And if we cannot make our disgust known trough direct channels then unfortunately we must find an indirect means of getting our message across. If you know of a better contact for this at Microsoft (rather than trying to use their limited "Contact Us" posted site medium) Please let me/us know.
"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." -- Martin Fowler
October 4, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Ron:
As a MS developer, if you bought Visual Studio 2010, I believe you automatically get a subscription to MSDN (which is similar to, if not the same as, technet) and will also give you the Dev version of SQL 2008.
Granted, VS2010 is $799 (and I'm not 100% convinced it's worth it). Just FYI if you already bought it or were thinking of upgrading ($549).
October 4, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Toby,
You are right about Technet seemingly being very similar to having an MSDN subscription. However, I have never heard of MSDN (other than documentation) being offered free with any Visual Studio or other product. To my knowledge an MSDN subscription that provides full access to other Microsoft products was always marketed to corporations and the cost was always prohibitive to mere mortals. Technet does appear to bring the cost down into the reach of single developers without corporate sponsorship.
If the MSDN subscription (not just the MSDN documentation package) is now being offered with Visual Studio 2010 it is news to me. I would suspect like so many of the add-on tools that can only be acquired if you have purchased the "Ultimate" edition, that an MSDN subscription would be similar, if at all.
"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." -- Martin Fowler
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