Free technet for... some period of time

[Jamesy.ps]

http://www.neowin.net/news/software/...s-subscription

TechNet Plus is a Microsoft service which offers full, legitimate versions of software to IT professionals (or whoever wants to pay for it). The subscription usually saps your wallet for $349 US, if you only want downloads, or $599 if you'd like disc versions too. However, as you can see, this is pretty pricey... the good news is, if you live in the US, the UK or Canada, our friendly Redmond-based software company has you covered.

If you live in the US, you can go here to get it sorted, or here for Canadians, and if you're in the UK, this will have you up and running. According to our pals at Ars Technica, you will need the following information: First name, last lame, street address, city/town, state, postal code, email, and contact phone number. You'll obviously need a valid address if you wish to get CD/DVD media, but otherwise you can use any for the direct software downloads.

Once that's all well and done, you'll need to do a few more things before you have a wealth of freebies within your grasps:

[MacNetron.ps]

For those in other countries, it seems you're out of luck, but no doubt there are ways around these limitations. Let us know how it goes!

Yes, there are ways around:
OpenOffice (free)
Eclipse for your (Java) development IDE (free)
and various linux distro's as free OS

[Jamesy.ps]

well my email came through and I am currently loading up like a freakin bank robber.

[Septic Osbert]

i just keep getting errors

[Jamesy.ps]

Same, I spammed the office 07 ultimate so much when it did load I had 12 keys 0.o

[Septic Osbert]

it wont even let me sign up :frusty:

[Jamesy.ps]

You're more than welcome to make me a list when it finally stops erroring me

[grom.ps]

i just keep getting errors

Try using IE - Microsoft.com is one of the only sites I still get any errors on using Firefox!

[relequestual]

No longer works! Poo!
Anyone take advantage of this?

[Jamesy.ps]

Did last night, it appears they've shut it off

[SleeperService.ps]

I got everything and i do mean everything through academic alliance when i was at uni

Would have had a lot of takers for this unsurprised it is down already

It would have been nice to get the new stuff coming up but should be able to get it through work

[Jamesy.ps]

apparently UK accounts came back online earlier, but now they are gone again.

The signup url was leaked - which is why they are being revoked. And keys possibly blacklisted.

[TheMacOne]

So it wasn't free then?