Need some advice regarding TechNet

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  1. Posts : 6,885
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64, Mint 9
       #11

    SeVeNrOxS said:
    It will be great if you share info with us when u find free subs of Technet .
    These are usually contained offers for IT Pros that they want business from their companies. I don't think the average tech enthusiast can get them. (No matter how much we love M$)

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  2. Posts : 18,404
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #12

    You also won't get Visual Studio, or Vista Business, or Expression Web thru the Technet Plus sub, to name a couple. But for Win 7 and Office 2010 when it comes out, well worth it IMO too. :)
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  3. Posts : 554
    Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1
    Thread Starter
       #13

    Thanks for all the advice, guys! I think we'll take the plunge after reading your suggestions. :)
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  4. Posts : 343
    PTS-Dos
       #14

    but not if you give away the serial etc. (you get up to 10 serials per product on technet! or more) or sell them thats illegal. So again technet is not meant for cheap asses who spend $350 and get every MS product for free including multiple licenses/keys... its all for testing.. mostly for devs or the it dept. of companies. Use these licenses on your every day machines on your own risk! trying to sell these keys may end up in being banned, sued by MS and your customer.. :)
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  5. Posts : 149
    Windows 7 Pro (MSDN)
       #15

    Lordbob75 said:
    The only things they don't have are Windows 3.1
    They do have that. Along with MS-DOS.

    wguimb said:
    you can then legally install Windows 7 or anything else that Microsoft makes on up to 10 computer systems
    If by "legally", you mean that you pass WGA and stuff, yes. If by "legally" you mean that it's actually legal, no, it's not; strictly speaking, using TechNet in that way is piracy because the terms of the license strictly prohibit you from doing anything other than evaluation and testing. Of course, Microsoft doesn't enforce any of this... for now (just like how even though they don't crack down on leaked evaluation builds of Windows, it doesn't make it technically right in a court of law if you ever happen to be sued).
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  6. Posts : 620
    7264x64/7260x86
       #16

    Something tells me MS is gonna start changing their terms of technet accounts soon...

    A lot of the people here who are like me are CONSTANTLY tinkering with their computers. As far as I (we?) am concerned, this is testing.
    lol
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  7. Posts : 6,885
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64, Mint 9
       #17

    copernicus said:
    Something tells me MS is gonna start changing their terms of technet accounts soon...


    lol
    But that is testing. Would you not agree? M$ would not want to give up a big source of revenue (people like me). As far as I am concerned, I am doing exactly what the terms say I can use it for.

    And KazeNoKoe, hope you like it. TechNet gets things early as well I believe. As said above, just don't sell or give away the keys. Use them for testing among your own computers, and you will be fine.

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  8. Posts : 149
    Windows 7 Pro (MSDN)
       #18

    Lordbob75 said:
    But that is testing. Would you not agree? M$ would not want to give up a big source of revenue (people like me). As far as I am concerned, I am doing exactly what the terms say I can use it for.

    And KazeNoKoe, hope you like it. TechNet gets things early as well I believe. As said above, just don't sell or give away the keys. Use them for testing among your own computers, and you will be fine.

    ~Lordbob
    Microsoft could easily make the TechNet keys time-limited (e.g., automatically invalidated by the activation/WGA servers after one year) or they could have the activation/WGA servers invalidate the keys when the account expires (so that if you do use TechNet as a way to "buy" Windows, at least you're forking over the $250 each year). Nowhere in the agreement did they say that the keys had to be perpetual (it just happens to be that way right now), and since the key are supposed to be used only for testing, Microsoft could say (fairly truthfully) that such a policy change would have no significant impact on legitimate TechNet users. If Microsoft ever got serious about TechNet piracy, they easily implement these changes.

    I just don't like the idea of that Damocles Sword hanging over my head.
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  9. Posts : 554
    Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1
    Thread Starter
       #19

    segobi said:
    but not if you give away the serial etc. (you get up to 10 serials per product on technet! or more) or sell them thats illegal. So again technet is not meant for cheap asses who spend $350 and get every MS product for free including multiple licenses/keys... its all for testing.. mostly for devs or the it dept. of companies. Use these licenses on your every day machines on your own risk! trying to sell these keys may end up in being banned, sued by MS and your customer.. :)
    There was never any intent to use any keys other than for personal use on our home machines. Selling "legit" keys to someone else who wanted 7 so we could, say, make up the money we spent on TechNet was never a consideration. I could really care less about generating XP or Vista keys as neither of us use those OS's anymore. Windows 7 is the primary reason we want a TechNet subscription. If some software is released on TechNet in say 6-9 months that I would like to test, then that's another reason to have it, but there's definitely no intention of using it to profit off generating legit Windows keys and selling them to other people.

    Also, I have another question. Even on the Canadian page, it lists the cost of the subscription as $349 USD. Does that get automatically converted to Canadian dollars so it ends up as about $400 CAD? Or is it $349 CAD as well? If any Canadians here have bought the TechNet subscription, could you let me know? Thanks. :)
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