Microsoft's murder most foul: TechNet is dead
Do we 'low margin' dregs matter to you anymore, Redmond? Thought not.


"The cancellation of TechNet subscriptions isn't merely a Windows
8.1-style slap in the face or an incomprehensible XBone-class failure to
read the market. This is a deliberate, planned, carefully considered shot
to the vital bits from on high.

The message is crystal clear: if you want to test Microsoft software on
anything excepting disposable short-term "free evals", then you
will do it in the cloud and you'll pay for the privilege. Can't afford to
subscribe to the cloud for a test lab? MSDN a little too pricy, or the
restriction to development use too severe? Too bad."

"You don't matter to Microsoft and neither do I. We've known all known
this for ages, but Microsoft has finally decided that they aren't going to
even bother to fake it anymore. Now is the time for those of us who don't
live "at scale" - and with budgets to match - to start looking
farther afield, before we move from "customer" to
"hostage"."


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/01/microsoft_kills_technet/


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