Thread: Microsoft ending TechNet subscription service.

Microsoft Ending TechNet Subscription Program August 31, 2013 | PC Perspective

Microsoft will stop selling subscriptions on August 31, 2013. If you are purchasing the subscription as a renewal to an existing one, you must buy the subscription before August 31, 2013 but do not need to activate it immediately. You will need to activate your purchased TechNet sub by September 30, 2013.

Further, TechNet subscribers will retain access to all of their traditional benefits until either the end of the subscription or September 30, 2014 (whichever comes first, depending on when you activate your subscription). After that point, users will lose access to the subscriber's portal which gives out downloads and keys.

Mine is up for renewal. I guess this is the last time. Really a bad call on their part. The new virtual labs are worthless to me as is the evaluation software. My lab has been great for me over the years and all the vms run a Technet licensed OS. I guess I will be a pirate soon since there is no way I am going to do MSDN. The evaluation versions are a poor substitute on things like SCCM or DCs. Thanks for the shaft Microsoft.

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