There's a lot of computers in my house. Windows and Office is expensive for every computer...
[url]http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/subscriptions/buy.aspx[/url]
Could a consumer purchase the $200 Microsoft Technet subscription and gain access to the software without breaking any EULAs or restrictions? I can't imagine them assigning a person to evaluate every account regularly and visit the address to make sure you're a person who "Qualifies", though are they enforcing anything with it?
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Use open office?
You're fine, as long as they're getting payed they couldn't give a damn.
[QUOTE=Blarg190;23397510]Use open office?[/QUOTE]
Hahaha.
no
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;23397853]You're fine, as long as they're getting payed they couldn't give a damn.[/QUOTE]
I'll look into it, thanks.
It may be against the EULA, you'd have to read it.
My dad had an MSDN subscription and what he told me is that the licenses were only supposed to be used for evaluation purposes and not home use and certainly not to be deployed across a business.
But Technet and MSDN aren't quite the same, but I don't know what the difference between the two would be.
But with all that said, I've been using copies of Windows from my dad's MSDN account for years and nothing has happened.
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[QUOTE=BenJ;23397889]Hahaha.
no
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Serious word processor user coming through.
[QUOTE=BenJ;23397889]Hahaha.
no[/QUOTE]
I'm not going to criticize you for this, but I [i]do[/i] want to know what you need from Office that OpenOffice doesn't have.
[QUOTE=n0cturni;23398113]I'm not going to criticize you for this, but I [i]do[/i] want to know what you need from Office that OpenOffice doesn't have.[/QUOTE]
decent interface and proper compatibility with office
Interface of Open Office was fine IMO, though yeah compatibility was leaving something to be desired.
[QUOTE=BenJ;23397094]There's a lot of computers in my house. Windows and Office is expensive for every computer...
[url]http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/subscriptions/buy.aspx[/url]
Could a consumer purchase the $200 Microsoft Technet subscription and gain access to the software without breaking any EULAs or restrictions? I can't imagine them assigning a person to evaluate every account regularly and visit the address to make sure you're a person who "Qualifies", though are they enforcing anything with it?[/QUOTE]
As a developer, I've got a technet subscription and it truly is a near-scam on Microsoft's part.
Here's how it works for anyone who isn't familiar with the program:
You sign up using a Windows Live ID and pay $200/year.
Your account gets access to every product Microsoft currently makes (excluding the enterprise stuff if you're on a cheaper package) via downloadable executables and .iso files.
You get 10 serial number *per* product they release, not per product family. So that means 10 keys for Windows 7 premium/ultimate/starter and per architecture, so 10 for x86 and 10 for x86-64.
Then you are allowed to activate every key *10* times! So if you look at Windows 7 alone, that is thousands of activations.
Windows 7 Versions (12) x Architecture (2) x 10 x 10 = 2400 copies of Windows
The subscription also includes every version of Windows Vista, XP, Home Server, Office 2007, Office 2010, Server 2003/2008/R2 etc and the same 10x10 activations per copy. As an added bonus, if they release a new product during your subscription, you get that for free. So if Windows 8 comes out within a year, you'll get that too.
Finally, copies last forever (even if you do not renew your subscription) and there is no policing system for checking what you do with the software.
The whole system is designed for IT professionals and developers to use to further their career and help deploy and test microsoft products in a home environment without a high cost. Microsoft knows that you could simply pirate their software instead and they are hoping that if you like what you use at home, you'll recommend it at work or to customers.
Generating keys doesn't cost them anything, they're making money and they recently made a new "consumer" subscription with a reduced price. They know full well what you're going to be using your subscription for.
[QUOTE=DrDevin;23414136]As a developer, I've got a technet subscription and it truly is a near-scam on Microsoft's part.
Here's how it works for anyone who isn't familiar with the program:
You sign up using a Windows Live ID and pay $200/year.
Your account gets access to every product Microsoft currently makes (excluding the enterprise stuff if you're on a cheaper package) via downloadable executables and .iso files.
You get 10 serial number *per* product they release, not per product family. So that means 10 keys for Windows 7 premium/ultimate/starter and per architecture, so 10 for x86 and 10 for x86-64.
Then you are allowed to activate every key *10* times! So if you look at Windows 7 alone, that is thousands of activations.
Windows 7 Versions (12) x Architecture (2) x 10 x 10 = 2400 copies of Windows
The subscription also includes every version of Windows Vista, XP, Home Server, Office 2007, Office 2010, Server 2003/2008/R2 etc and the same 10x10 activations per copy. As an added bonus, if they release a new product during your subscription, you get that for free. So if Windows 8 comes out within a year, you'll get that too.
Finally, copies last forever (even if you do not renew your subscription) and there is no policing system for checking what you do with the software.
The whole system is designed for IT professionals and developers to use to further their career and help deploy and test microsoft products in a home environment without a high cost. Microsoft knows that you could simply pirate their software instead and they are hoping that if you like what you use at home, you'll recommend it at work or to customers.
Generating keys doesn't cost them anything, they're making money and they recently made a new "consumer" subscription with a reduced price. They know full well what you're going to be using your subscription for.[/QUOTE]
Intriguing...
[QUOTE=DrDevin;23414136]As a developer, I've got a technet subscription and it truly is a near-scam on Microsoft's part.
Here's how it works for anyone who isn't familiar with the program:
You sign up using a Windows Live ID and pay $200/year.
Your account gets access to every product Microsoft currently makes (excluding the enterprise stuff if you're on a cheaper package) via downloadable executables and .iso files.
You get 10 serial number *per* product they release, not per product family. So that means 10 keys for Windows 7 premium/ultimate/starter and per architecture, so 10 for x86 and 10 for x86-64.
Then you are allowed to activate every key *10* times! So if you look at Windows 7 alone, that is thousands of activations.
Windows 7 Versions (12) x Architecture (2) x 10 x 10 = 2400 copies of Windows
The subscription also includes every version of Windows Vista, XP, Home Server, Office 2007, Office 2010, Server 2003/2008/R2 etc and the same 10x10 activations per copy. As an added bonus, if they release a new product during your subscription, you get that for free. So if Windows 8 comes out within a year, you'll get that too.
Finally, copies last forever (even if you do not renew your subscription) and there is no policing system for checking what you do with the software.
The whole system is designed for IT professionals and developers to use to further their career and help deploy and test microsoft products in a home environment without a high cost. Microsoft knows that you could simply pirate their software instead and they are hoping that if you like what you use at home, you'll recommend it at work or to customers.
Generating keys doesn't cost them anything, they're making money and they recently made a new "consumer" subscription with a reduced price. They know full well what you're going to be using your subscription for.[/QUOTE]
Haha this.
I have a technet subscription and it's crazy. I went and generated all the keys available for all the products, as the only downside to it is if you let it expire and you haven't generated all the keys you've missed out.
One ammendment to DrDevin's post, the technet subscription doesn't have any of the developer products like visual studio, you'll need an msdn subscription for that.
But yeah, 200 quid for everything microsoft have ever made, sure they're supposed to be evaluation copies, but in reality they're all retail keys and you'd have to be doing something pretty dumb like selling the keys on ebay to get microsoft interested in what you're doing with your account.
If you have a lot of windows machines it's a no brainer, here in the uk a retail windows 7 ultimate is 150+ quid, for 200 quid you can have many, many copies.
Here's a one up: Try and see if you can find someone willing to give you a bizspark subscription. It's basically technet, except it's free for 3 years. At least for me, I think he had to pay like 10-30 bucks to sign up, but really it's negligible.
[QUOTE=ShaRose;23446878]Here's a one up: Try and see if you can find someone willing to give you a bizspark subscription. It's basically technet, except it's free for 3 years. At least for me, I think he had to pay like 10-30 bucks to sign up, but really it's negligible.[/QUOTE]
What kind of people can give them out?
Did you guys know Microsoft gives free Technet accounts for students?
[QUOTE=Ericsson;23464814]Did you guys know Microsoft gives free Technet accounts for students?[/QUOTE]
[B]What.[/B]
Link, now, do want, fuck
I think he means the dreamspark program:
[url]https://www.dreamspark.com/[/url]
That is hardly the same thing.
Well the only other academic program that I know microsoft do is the MSDN AA:
[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/academic/default.aspx[/url]
But yeah, it's an MSDN, not a Technet subscription.
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