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Microsoft Announces Technet Standard

$149 for the standard renewal looks nice. My current TN sub expires in August and I was thinking of dropping it. But, I'll probably renew it at the new price.
 
I was just thinking about this yesterday how it might make sense if Microsoft offered subscription service more widely, Technet makes it much easier to stay on top of Windows and Office updates. Got to thinking about it because of Office 2010 and upgrading from Office 2007 but not wanting to fork over that much money for all my computers and how I also have some Vista machines that I would like to switch to 7.
 
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I'm on my 3d renewal. Looks like they added a "Standard" lower tier. I renwed Direct Plus. That is now "TN Pro." Next year I'll renew "Standard" and save a C note.

Another example that says times are tough all over.
 
bunnyfubbles said:
I was just thinking about this yesterday how it might make sense if Microsoft offered subscription service more widely, Technet makes it much easier to stay on top of Windows and Office updates.
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Yeah. I kinda thought the MS Equipt offering would have been an attractive deal for a family with a few kids...or a set of roommates in college who wanted the latest MS Office offering. Circuit City's demise is probably what killed that experiment early though.
 
Nothinman said:
I thought I heard they were getting rid of that and moving towards a competency based partner program more like Cisco's program.
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It's been competency based for a while. You have to have multiple competencies to attain Gold Partner status. My former employer attained Gold Partner Status while I was there. I know we recieved one MSDN subscription and 3 TechNet subscriptions at Gold Partner level. This could have changed in the last year or so.
 
stlcardinals said:
It's been competency based for a while. You have to have multiple competencies to attain Gold Partner status. My former employer attained Gold Partner Status while I was there. I know we recieved one MSDN subscription and 3 TechNet subscriptions at Gold Partner level. This could have changed in the last year or so.
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Ah, I never paid much attention to it and just passed the tests that were asked. One of our main Windows guys was tasked with sorting out our partnership and cert status with MS and told me that they were redoing the whole thing to look more like Cisco's setup although more complicated, of course.
 
So why wouldn't someone just pay for this subscription, then download all the software they needed for all the computers in there home/office? I don't understand what this is i guess.
Can someone explain?

Thanks!
 
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nah competencies for the most part are not getting any harder.

microsoft just wants you to use/learn their products and buy them - because once you are hooked on sql server 😉 you will cause them much profit for years to come lol.
 
Anybody know off-hand what the policy is for when you cancel your subscription? Do your existing keys get yoinked, or is it just that you can't get any more?
 
middlehead said:
Anybody know off-hand what the policy is for when you cancel your subscription? Do your existing keys get yoinked, or is it just that you can't get any more?
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Technet keys can continue to be used and activated after the subscription. You just can't access the downloads and obtain more keys.
 
no that is MSDN. Which is about $1400 a year.
but there is dreamspark and bizspark that come with msdn iirc.
 
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