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Re: Re: Re: TechNet Plus - anyone have it?

Dyonas — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:31:02 GMT

I placed my order on 15th, a Thursday, and it was quite late but the link showing order status is in US time so it shouldn't have made any difference to time taken. However, it took until Friday for it to change from Order submitted to "In Process" at 10am US time but as of right now it's still showing the same. It makes me wonder why they do it manually instead of automating the process because I'm very impatient when it comes to things like this and just because it's a weekend doesn't stop that :/

Re: Re: Re: TechNet Plus - anyone have it?

chakkaradeep — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:53:17 GMT

If you had organized a launch event at Heroes Community Launch, and received your Event Kit, then you are entitled for a free TechNet single user license subscription and not only that, you can pass on the invitation code to maximum 3 people and they too get it for free! (anybody have it already? I am looking for one :D )

Re: Re: TechNet Plus - anyone have it?

Jered — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:47:25 GMT

Dyonas you will get another email in a few days that will allow you to link your ID number to a msn email. MS will also send you a technet membership card with that information to put somewhere. I took about 6 hours after I got the second email for me to get access to the downloads. All in all a few days...

Re: TechNet Plus - anyone have it?

Dyonas — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:47:43 GMT

Rather than start a new thread I thought I'd post this in here. I placed my order earlier for a TechNet Plus direct subscription but as it's the first time I've done this I have no idea how long it'll take. The order confirmation e-mail states ...

"Estimated Delivery Date if paid upfront (Not applicable to TechNet Plus Direct orders): May 30, 2008"

but as it says that doesn't apply to TechNet Plus direct orders. What sort of timeframe should I be looking at here, a few hours? A day? Longer? It's been almost 30 minutes now, I'm impatient :P

Re: TechNet Plus - anyone have it?

Dyonas — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:46:32 GMT

I know it's a pretty good deal considering all it contains Jered, unfortunately I'm not working right now and am at college studying towards an MCSA (4th exam completed out of 5 as of today) so as good as the value may be I don't have a great deal of income.

TheContempt - e-mailed you just a few minutes ago.

Re: Re: TechNet Plus - anyone have it?

TheContempt — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:32:24 GMT

Dyonas,

Please contact me directly via
While I'm on the topic, where did you buy your subscription TheContempt? I've looked at the price from Microsoft and even at £234 alone that's still £10 more expensive than via Amazon.co.uk which seems ridiculous. If I could get it for that or cheaper that'd be ideal, here's hoping for some future promotion linked with Dreamspark.

Re: Re: Re: TechNet Plus - anyone have it?

Dyonas — Sun, 11 May 2008 21:16:26 GMT

Ah ok, that clears it up completely thanks guys :) I would love to buy a subscription but currently even the cost of a renewal is more than I could afford. With a new subscription costing more than that I'll have to wait for the time being unless something magically happens like an offer for students as part of Dreamspark *hint hint*.

Re: Re: TechNet Plus - anyone have it?

TheContempt — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:56:31 GMT

As Christian said, the software available from TechNet is essentailly the same as what's found on MSDN. It's full version software and not "Time-Bombed" as some other evaluation software. I've been a proud TechNet Plus subcriber for nearly a year now and I can tell you that we (as IT Professionals) coundn't do our jobs without it! I hope this helps and I certainly recommend you purchase a subscription ASAP.

//Josh (Wa)

Re: TechNet Plus - anyone have it?

littleguru — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:33:17 GMT

I have the TechNet Plus subscription as part of the MVP program. It is basically the same software as in the MSDN package. I haven't seen it to be limited. The only thing I don't know is if the dev tools are also all available with TechNet Plus.

TechNet aims more into the direction of IT pros and IT administrators whereas MSDN is for devs.

I hope this helps you with your decision.