| Subject: MSDN Library 3 month updates - when did it stop for subscribers? |
| Group: microsoft.public.msdn.general |
| Date: 4/10/2008 4:32:40 AM |
| From: "Thomas" [Email Address Protection] |
sorry, been traveling overseas for a long while and just now logged on to my MSDN sub can't seem to find any updates for the MSDN Library for the last 3 or 6 months, everything is old what announcement did I miss? |
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| Subject: Re: MSDN Library 3 month updates - when did it stop for subscribers? |
| Group: microsoft.public.msdn.general |
| Date: 4/11/2008 7:20:57 AM |
| From: "Jeff Johnson" [Email Address Protection] |
"Thomas" <th@m.as> wrote in message news:666c6qF2j3q7mU1@mid.individual.net... > sorry, been traveling overseas for a long while and just now logged on to > my MSDN sub > > can't seem to find any updates for the MSDN Library for the last 3 or 6 > months, everything is old > > what announcement did I miss? The same one I missed, apparently. Perhaps they want us to go 100% online. Dear Microsoft: some of us HATE online documentation. I want the files on my hard drive. I don't care if they get slightly out-of-date near the end of the 90 days, I want 'em anyways! |
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| Subject: Re: MSDN Library 3 month updates - when did it stop for subscribers? |
| Group: microsoft.public.msdn.general |
| Date: 4/11/2008 12:46:22 PM |
| From: Gerry Hickman [Email Address Protection] |
Hi, I'd like to back up what Jeff is saying. I have ZERO interest in downloading huge ISO files with Microsoft's insecure ActiveX installation of a poor quality download manager. I pay to receive the media, that's why I subscribe. I phoned MSDN today and asked about the shipments, they said they couldn't find the information! They then asked what product I was interested in. I said how about Windows 2008? She took ages looking at various screens and said she didn't know, and then asked "is it a server". At this point I was near to exploding. She said she'd "research the problem and get back to me", still nothing after eight hours. Very disappointing. They were keen to post my invoice for next year's subscription though! Jeff Johnson wrote: > "Thomas" <th@m.as> wrote in message > news:666c6qF2j3q7mU1@mid.individual.net... > >> sorry, been traveling overseas for a long while and just now logged on to >> my MSDN sub >> >> can't seem to find any updates for the MSDN Library for the last 3 or 6 >> months, everything is old >> >> what announcement did I miss? > > The same one I missed, apparently. Perhaps they want us to go 100% online. > > Dear Microsoft: some of us HATE online documentation. I want the files on my > hard drive. I don't care if they get slightly out-of-date near the end of > the 90 days, I want 'em anyways! > > -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) |
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| Subject: Re: MSDN Library 3 month updates - when did it stop for subscribers? |
| Group: microsoft.public.msdn.general |
| Date: 5/13/2008 5:35:21 AM |
| From: "SvenC" [Email Address Protection] |
Hi Thomas, > sorry, been traveling overseas for a long while and just now logged > on to my MSDN sub > > can't seem to find any updates for the MSDN Library for the last 3 or > 6 months, everything is old > > what announcement did I miss? The new MSDN is the one which ships with VS 2008. I think its content is from January 2008 and it is listed in the Visual Studio tree not the MSDN standalone tree. But remember that it only integrates with VS2008. For 2005 you must use MSDN 05/2007 or 06/2007 -- SvenC |
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