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Microsoft To Shut Down TechNet Subscription Service

Posted by samzenpus on from the so-long-farewell dept.

otaku244 writes "Since 1998, Microsoft TechNet has been a mainstay for all system developers attached to the Microsoft platform, given the ease of access to almost every product the company has produced. Unfortunately, the days of a cheap, unlimited Microsoft development stack are coming to an end."

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  1. Re:This is mostly outdated service by monzie · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I wish I had mod points, Dear AC sir. I consider myself a pragmatic developer and I'm not interested in starting an MS vs Linux vs .... war. I am also a full time freelancer and I currently work on Ruby on Rails. When my client suggested that we 'port' our app to .Net ( whatever that means ) - I was appalled at the investment I need to put in to get my dev environment going.

    I am happy developing my webapps on Rails and Django and I see it remaining so for the foreseeable future. ( I am also keeping an eye out for Google Go ). But I am *not* going to use a programming framework tied so closely to an IDE.