Lee Ferree

I guess it just goes to show, you can’t believe every thing you read. While my TechNet Plus account is no more, I’ve installed Vista and Office 2007 Enterprise and the supplied keys are working. I still haven’t checked my keys against every thing I downloaded, but I can safely say not all keys were blacklisted and possibly none ever were.

Wednesday started off like any other day, until you started reading your morning Tech News. I poured my first cup of coffee and started going through my feeds in Google Reader as usual, when I started seeing numerous posts about Microsoft giving away FREE TechNet Plus subscriptions as part of a pilot program they were doing.

A Microsoft TechNet Plus subscription is aimed at IT Professionals who want full-version Microsoft software, beta software, professional support incidents, managed newsgroup support, a technical information library, Microsoft eLearning courses, online concierge chat, the TechNet Magazine, and many other resources for evaluating, deploying, and maintaining Microsoft software. The subscription normally goes for $349 (download-only) or for $599 (download and DVD shipments).