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t3ch_guru

sweet i was able to get mines registered.

Wow, everything is working now! I can finally realize my dream of running Windows 3.1

Windows 3.1 here i come

kriscamaro68

I was able to get mine through my browser history to I am happy now. Any Idea how long this is suupose to last? I heard its a 3 month subscription?

NetAdmin2436

Woo-hoo! I had to go in through history as well, good looking out Skyprune

Tyrant1919

I'm assuming once they took the front page down, most people stopped registering. Except those of us smart enough to use the history.

Piers

a little late to this party, so no history

arwes

You're apparently not missing anything. Looks like they've killed access to downloads and to keys.

Tyrant1919

I was going to give you my history. Guess at that point I was logged in with my LIVE ID :^/.

-I just logged in and all that stuff. Yep, I think they killed everything :^D.

vCole

Ah looks like they killed everything

skrpune

well crap. At least I was able to snag a Vista Ultimate key while I had access...better than nothing I suppose.

nash0924

I should have downloaded a key too

kriscamaro68

I figured they would do something like this so I grabbed a bunch of keys.
I got windows xp 32 and 64, media center, vista ultimate, server 03 enterprise and standard, server08, exchange 07, windows home server, sharepoint server 07, and office 03 pro. Do they work. That is yet to be determined but I tried grabbing as many as I could while i could.

jibbajabba

They amend the expiration date

That'll be European date though, February 6th 2010 .. not bad for something free ...

astorrs

Gomjaba wrote: »

They amend the expiration date

That'll be European date though, February 6th 2010 .. not bad for something free ...

Don't get too comfortable (or maybe don't wait too long to download everything

) they're working their way through all the ones that were created through those 3 links and deactivating them all. This was a private beta for IT pros that support small business and individual users and had a feedback/research component, etc, it was never supposed to be open to the general public.

jibbajabba

astorrs wrote: »

Don't get too comfortable (or maybe don't wait too long to download everything ) they're working their way through all the ones that were created through those 3 links and deactivating them all. This was a private beta for IT pros that support small business and individual users and had a feedback/research component, etc, it was never supposed to be open to the general public.

Ah well ... got a technet through the Momentum project anyway, plus a Universal MSDN and SPLA scheme anyway as well .. personally I am covered .. *whistles*

jibbajabba

astorrs wrote: »

Don't get too comfortable (or maybe don't wait too long to download everything ) they're working their way through all the ones that were created through those 3 links and deactivating them all. This was a private beta for IT pros that support small business and individual users and had a feedback/research component, etc, it was never supposed to be open to the general public.

Ah well ... got a technet through the Momentum project anyway, plus a Universal MSDN and SPLA scheme anyway as well .. personally I am covered .. *whistles*

dynamik

Gomjaba wrote: »

Ah well ... got a technet through the Momentum project anyway, plus a Universal MSDN and SPLA scheme anyway as well .. personally I am covered .. *whistles*

Hehe. I was going to say that I simply bought a real sub, so I didn't have to deal with all this drama

This was definitely an entertaining read though! All the twists made it quite suspenseful!

jibbajabba

dynamik wrote: »

Hehe. I was going to say that I simply bought a real sub, so I didn't have to deal with all this drama

This was definitely an entertaining read though! All the twists made it quite suspenseful!

Yea I always said I wouldn't mind buying my own subs .. just never had to

jibbajabba

astorrs wrote: »

Don't get too comfortable (or maybe don't wait too long to download everything ) they're working their way through all the ones that were created through those 3 links and deactivating them all. This was a private beta for IT pros that support small business and individual users and had a feedback/research component, etc, it was never supposed to be open to the general public.

You were right indeed

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dynamik

Gomjaba wrote: »

Yea I always said I wouldn't mind buying my own subs .. just never had to

I get reimbursed

jibbajabba

dynamik wrote: »

I get reimbursed

That works too

Tyrant1919

Awwwwwwwwwwww..............

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arwes

Yeah I got that today too.

I wonder what's going to happen to the person who posted that on their blog?

Jordus

Why did you edit out the part of the email where they mention putting a hit out on Gomjaba?

msteinhilber

You guy's could just look up the IT Pro Momentum program Jordus mentioned a while back and get a free subscription that way.

Tyrant1919

a free subscription by paying for something? Never!

arwes

msteinhilber wrote: »

You guy's could just look up the IT Pro Momentum program Jordus mentioned a while back and get a free subscription that way.

I emailed that guy over a week ago and haven't heard anything back from him. I also emailed the address on this page sometime last week, maybe I'll hear something back?

IT Pro Momentum Program Blog

darkerosxx

It took me two weeks to get a response, Arwes.