Re: [OT] MSDN subscription

2014-05-30 Thread Stephen Price
Admonish is such a strong word. I even had to look it up. :) Remember the renewal price is around half of the initial price. I got my initial Premium at upgrade price as a special deal. What I find a bit annoying is there is no way to switch levels of msdn. You basically have to get the new one at

Re: [OT] MSDN subscription

2014-05-30 Thread Stephen Price
Yeah, that's a great price. Not. It defaulted to the price in US dollars. Change the dropdown to Australian dollar and check the price difference. New: 6119 US Dollar equals 6566.85 Australian Dollar They want $9,755.00 AU Upgrade: 2569 US Dollar equals 2757.03 Australian Dollar Their price $4,0

Re: [OT] MSDN subscription

2014-05-30 Thread Scott Barnes
You'll need a new ABN and domain each time though :) On Friday, May 30, 2014, Stephen Price wrote: > Yeah, you just start a new startup company every three years and join > BizSpark each time around. > > If you do that enough times, eventually you might even learn enough to > stop failing and $1

Re: [OT] MSDN subscription

2014-05-30 Thread Stephen Price
Yep. Much cheaper than MSDN renewals. Once ppl figure it out (and Microsoft wakes up to it) they will remove Bizspark, or make msdn subscriptions cheaper. bwhahahahaha. that's funny. Sorry, it's Troll Friday. On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Scott Barnes wrote: > You'll need a new ABN and dom

RE: [OT] MSDN subscription

2014-05-30 Thread Bill Chesnut (BizTalkBill)
If you need only Visual Studio pro, get the Pro MSDN subscription From Microway: Visual Studio 2013 Professional with 2 Years MSDN $1885 inc GST then for Office, there are several options: Office 365 Home - $12 per month for 5 users, includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote,

Re: [OT] MSDN subscription

2014-05-30 Thread Stephen Price
I tried to activate Office365 with my msdn subscription (theres a link there to do it). Australia wasn't in the list of countries to choose from. :( There was a sign in button which gives me this: Sorry, that didn't workThis doesn't look like a valid user ID. Make sure you typed the user ID assi

RE: [OT] MSDN subscription

2014-05-30 Thread Ian Thomas
If that's the way O365 works here, I won't bother looking at any of those options. Ian Thomas Sent from my Nokia Lumia 920 - Windows Phone 8 From: Stephen Price Sent: ‎30/‎05/‎2014 19:47 To: ozDotNet

RE: [OT] MSDN subscription

2014-05-30 Thread Bill Chesnut (BizTalkBill)
Telstra is just the reseller, not hosting, my mailboxes are hosted in Singapore in the Microsoft datacentre Bill From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 10:31 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] MSDN subscriptio