Technet Subscription - 25% off all Microsoft Store products!

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BizSpark is only available if you have been in business for under three years, so that's not an option for many companies.

The new company is definitely under 3 years old (its less than 3 weeks at the moment).

[Joeman]

BizSpark is only available if you have been in business for under three years, so that's not an option for many companies.

well they didnt ask for company registration numbers or anything, make up a company name, and so long as you have the domain name, and email at that domain, they might let you in!!

I just got accepted, but my LtdCo is recently formed after i scrapped my last company in fear that a certain accountantcy firm might have messed something up - safer to disolve and start again, than have the worry that all previous accounts where wrong!!

[PAH]

BizSpark looks interesting for those who qualify as it includes Visual Studio which Technet does not. Shame they restrict it to companies under 3 years old.

Do they require all sorts of details into what software you're developing using their tools, like they did for the Empower programme a few years ago? I've still not started the app that I submitted details of to qualify for that.

Almost worth changing Ltd companies every 3 years to re-qualify. Also has the benefit of boxing off old accounts against any retrospective tax legislation or investigations that may decide something was underpaid.

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Do they require all sorts of details into what software you're developing using their tools, like they did for the Empower programme a few years ago? I've still not started the app that I submitted details of to qualify for that.

They seem to want a website (for the product) and a very brief description of what the application or company will do.

As the product is already almost there it wasn't much of a problem for me especially as it was production licences I wanted. It should give me a decent reduction on my AWS costs.

[Graham]

The code below is supposed to work with any product you can buy via the Microsoft store and expires on 10th Febuary 2012.

Discount code: myms25saving

Doesn't seem to be working any more, tried it on both a new technet subscription and a renewal.

Does anyone have any other codes?

Only one I can find is TNFLA12 (15% discount) which is for TechNet Professional and you have to be subscribed to TechNet Flash newsletter apparently.

[escapeUK]

BizSpark is only available if you have been in business for under three years, so that's not an option for many companies.

But making up a company is fine. You were going to start a new company for something werent you? I asked them if it was ok as I didnt have a Ltd company at the time, and they said thats not a problem. I must be coming towards the end of my third year soon.

[Bryan0010165]

Any chance of the link?

Hi, I'm looking to buy a technetium subscription but can't seem to find technetium within the Microsoft store, could you post a link to it please?

Thank

Just bought a Technet Standard subscription so I can mess around with a few virtual machines using Windows Server / SQL Server etc that is included in the subscription.

Found a 25% discount code for the Microsoft Store, so only paid £100.21 + vat (which I can reclaim ).

Technet includes all the following (now also including Office 2010) and will include any new products released during the subscription (e.g. SQL Server 2012):

http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...duct_List.xlsx

Bargain.

The code below is supposed to work with any product you can buy via the Microsoft store and expires on 10th Febuary 2012.

Discount code: myms25saving

Fill yer boots.

[AtW]

Vanilla VS Pro 2012 costs £400 - very cheap over 3 years.

Soon Microsoft will be giving it away because their platform is rapidaly becoming not worth developing for.

SKA Inc is switching to Java/Perl/Linux. Microsoft's future is bleak without Bill Gates.

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Soon Microsoft will be giving it away because their platform is rapidaly becoming not worth developing for.

SKA Inc is switching to Java/Perl/Linux. Microsoft's future is bleak without Bill Gates.

Please tell me that's a joke. Server is the one area MS seems to be improving right now, and running servers you don't need to follow the trend even if Windows does shrink a lot.

[eek]

Vanilla VS Pro 2012 costs £400 - very cheap over 3 years.

Soon Microsoft will be giving it away because their platform is rapidaly becoming not worth developing for.

SKA Inc is switching to Java/Perl/Linux. Microsoft's future is bleak without Bill Gates.

We're switching to node on the backend not sure about the front end yet. It may well stay with IIS for a while yet until we recruit people to redo the front end

The reason for node is a lovely hack. You can send the response immediately to the browser (saying thank you), close the connection and start doing all the database work needed to do to handle the information within request.
You just can't respond quickly under IIS or Apache without offloading it to a separate processing program.