Thats exactly how it works, if an applicable product upgrade is released during your license term you then yes you get a license for the new version as well. Once your license runs out (and if you don't renew) your existing licenses are still valid (I think theres a few exceptions to this though.) Something you should know is that most stuff is licensed for "development and testing only", obviously that depends on how you read into that though :) <edit> For more info on how the licensing works check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/cc150618.aspx[^]. If you want Office it's only available on the Premium subscription. </edit>

Gavin Taylor

It's here! It's here!

Gavin Taylor

We've been running two dedicated Windows servers with them for approx 3 years (using around 40gb's bandwidth a month) and as far as uptime and value for money go we've never had a problem and would definately use them again. However, as was pointed out by Dan already I pity anybody who needs to use their support line, the only time I remember ever having a problem it took nearly 2 hours of arguing with their support for them to realise they had a problem with DNS resolution (I ended up fixing it myself by pushing requests through OpenDNS instead.) X|

Gavin Taylor

modified on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:43 AM

Unless theres a massive slippage (which I can't see happening) Weven is due to RTM the second half of July so it falls well within the subscription period. Once products RTM their available pretty much instantly on MSDN and TechNet. I've got an MSDN account anyways so I'm not fussed but same rules apply :)

Gavin Taylor

Weird, not having any problems here at all... They've just posted Vista SP2 aswell :)

Gavin Taylor

Yup, come up about 30mins ago :). I'm getting a nice smooth download speed of around 800KB/s at the moment if so everybody could hang on 30mins so I can finish downloading it it would be much appreciated :-\

Gavin Taylor

No, no... Subtle usability tweaks such as that aren't normally added until around the RC0 stage :)

Gavin Taylor

:laugh:

Gavin Taylor

Marc Clifton wrote:

where's the menubar in Explorer

Organize / Layout / Menu Bar

Marc Clifton wrote:

display options

Organize / Folder and Search Options As for the whole problem with your code dying it's probably because .NET 2.0 will by default try to run in native x64 mode and your code is trying to mix with code compiled for 32bit mode (Visio and I'm assuming your c++ code.) To change this you will need to create a new build target under your C# project for 32bit and things should run fine then.

Gavin Taylor

On the page[^] for the online installer theres a link for the full redistributable package (197mb). :)

Gavin Taylor

Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison[^]. Personally every important thing I use is missing from the express packages so I've never even bothered to really look at them.

Gavin Taylor

The subscribers site is dated for the 11/08/2008 and they've removed the Beta status from it aswell, poking around this [^] looks like the official download of the ISO file for non-subscribers.

Gavin Taylor

Finally I can install SQL Server 2008 on my development box :) <edit>Why does it only take me 15 minutes to download the 830mb file and then an hour to install to the bloody thing :(</edit>

Gavin Taylor

modified on Monday, August 11, 2008 1:03 PM

I haven't seen it posted anywhere yet but SQL Server 2008 has officially gone gold and is now available on MSDN and Technet :) http://www.betanews.com/article/No_more_delays_SQL_Server_2008_released_to_manufacturing/1218058175[^] If people could now wait an hour or so before the free for all begins it would be appreciated :) <edit>Kudos to Microsoft for actually listening to feedback and sorting their subscribers site out :)</edit>

Gavin Taylor

modified on Wednesday, August 6, 2008 8:06 PM

Wouldn't it be easier to just buy a XBox 360 VGA cable pre-made? :) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Xbox-360-Audio-Video-Cable/dp/B000AYYADE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1217581460&sr=8-1[^]

Gavin Taylor

When you create the window dont set the WS_MAXIMIZEBOX style, if your using MFC check under the CWnd::PreCreateWindow method of your windows class and you can change the style from there before the window is created.

Gavin Taylor

Looking at the documentation on MSDN GetAdaptersInfo( ) doesn't return that much detail and has been superseded by GetAdaptersAddresses[^] as of Windows XP, however even that only looks like it will differentiate between wired and wireless on Vista and not XP.

Gavin Taylor

Jim Crafton wrote:

the physical "CPU" is the chip that fits in the socket, right

Correct Windows counts physical CPU'S and not individual cores as far as licensing goes, however it will it will treat each core as a seperate processor (task manager will show each processor individually).

Gavin Taylor

I left it installing over night, after an hour of 'Windows is installing a service pack, please wait' and constant rebooting I got fed up and went home. I came in this morning expecting a huge mess but was actually really surprised, everything feels a little snappier now and yes the 5 minute pause before it starts copying/moving/deleteing anything does appear to be fixed *cross fingers*, It might be me but LAN access seems alot faster to me now aswell :~

Gavin Taylor

Judging by the size of the ISO containing both x86 & x64 versions (1.13gb) I hope it contains every update it needs to install itself... I just checked my list of updates that Windows wants to install and it's around 800mb, so I hope it does or could be a long night :( And to think I used to moan about the 80mb installer for Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a X|

Gavin Taylor