Free one year subscription to Microsoft technet

Rainmaker said:
As I just posted above; no it's not really bugger all. If I want to have my contracted access to the service I'll now have to fork out >£200, when the contract was originally £0 and my personal details. I'm now going to be >£200 out of pocket due to their reneging on the contract.
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They pulled out of their contract, i acknowledged this posts ago... but the likelyhood of a victory on the matter is very slim. Again, the most you'll get is nothing.

Write them a letter and demand them to remove all yoru personal details from their records. That'll set everything back to 0.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
You because it's what you have lost, not what you would have lost. Besides, they could bar you from ever being able to get another subscription if it went that far anyway.
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So I pay out the >£200 for a subscription just so I can access what the original contract agreed I could access for free, and voila - I have a real, already paid-for out of pocket loss. MS can bar me if they like, but that doesn't mean I haven't made a loss. Twice in that case!
 
Rainmaker said:
So I pay out the >£200 for a subscription just so I can access what the original contract agreed I could access for free, and voila - I have a real, already paid-for out of pocket loss. MS can bar me if they like, but that doesn't mean I haven't made a loss. Twice in that case!
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I'm pretty sure contract law doesn't work like that ;):p
 
This reminds me of the Threshers promotion mistake a couple of years ago - they offered a 40% discount via voucher to staff and their friends/family - the voucher "went viral" and all of a sudden they had to make a decision to honour the voucher or not.

They did, and had an extremely profitable time of it, as the increased volume of sales balanced out the loss per sale.

It's obviously different here as MS are making zero profit per free trial (apart from the odd soul who signs up having had a peek at the benefits of a subscription. But MS could potentially gain a lot of goodwill by honouring existing subscriptions (within limits) - I for one, was setting up the newsgroups when my account got suspended for a second time. Whilst I acknowledge that I don't really need the software (though an ISO of XP SP3 would save me time on reinstalls) - I'd like to have access to the news and views of that community.

Threshers story in case anyone was interested in reading about it.
 
What about the material (rather than purely financial) loss? We fulfilled our half of the contract, and now MS is depriving us (by breaking the contract) of a year's access to TechNet regardless of cost. Does this change things legally?

Burnsy, I'm no ***** I just find the idea intriguing. Even if a person could afford to buy the whole of OcUK a TechNet sub doesn't mean they aren't allowed to be miffed that MS broke a contract.

If I broke the contract between us for my Vista license, I'm sure they'd be pretty damn quick to be annoyed. So, I'm likewise annoyed that THEY broke a contract.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
A moral victory?! You're upset you're not getting freebies? Bloody ******.
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Yeah! I bloody am!

The point is, we didn't do anything wrong. They offered us soemthing, and we took it. It's hardly thievery ;)

They've reversed their contract after they've agreed it, and since the T+C's state nothing about pricing errors and contract withdrawl, technically they're in the wrong!

STICK IT TO THE MAN, BURNSY!

Wooooooo!
 
It makes me laugh how people complain so much about something they got for free being taken away, as they were never meant to get it in the first place. These are the same people that don't pay for windows and their software I imagine (not saying it's you guys, just I can imagine the general public feeling this way). I don't think MS are rip-off merchants, their software on the most part is very good, and they don't deserve half the bad press they get.
 
DampCat said:
Just to tidy something up, i'm considering actually buying a technet sub now i've seen what they are :)
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Likewise. I'm in love with Win7 RC (it actually pulled me back from a Linux environment!), but I'm now put off by MS's chicanery :p Honour this year for free, MS, and I'll sign up for an extra year on the spot. Guaranteed. This guy, at least, doesn't back down on his word :D
 
DampCat said:
Just to tidy something up, i'm considering actually buying a technet sub now i've seen what they are :)
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Well it seems it may well pay for itself so to speak with Windows 7 coming out, though they're only supposed to be licences for evaluative purposes as opposed to being run on machines 24/7. Not sure how or if they check this though. my boss in a company I do part time work for has a subscription and he gets sent a whole big pack of discs and keys every year for their various products.
 
Yeah perhaps it is, I'm not 100% on what he gets, I know it's not the basic thing we tried to get for free though, but I doubt he paid a few grand for it too.
 
Assuming a pro subscription is normally $350 for downloadable content. What is to stop 10 people getting together and splitting the cost for a legit account? Apparently you should be able to get usually upto 10 legit licence keys per product. So if 10 people wanted Windows 7 and chipped in with one account, you could all get Windows 7 for say £30 each.... AND YES, FOR EVALUATION PURPOSES ONLY.

EDIT: This would technically be illegal I would 99% assume, even if they were all used as evaluative. i.e. It's the passing onto other parties thing that would be illegal?
 
The licence still expires after a year though, right? And you have to uninstall, reinstall, and subit the new licence for that product. You know. So you can evaluate it again.
 
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