Heroes Happen Here: They're catching on

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As much as I'm inclined to believe Microsoft changed their policy from issuing full versions of software to just 365-day trials because of tax reasons (or so explained one of the organisers when I expressed my disappointment at the end of the day), I can't help but think that maybe they're catching on to people abusing the licenses.

 

Still, even if the WS2008 and SQL2008 were 365-day trials, the main shame is that the VS2008 is Standard and not Professional.

 

Since the majority of my dev work is web-based (and I use a LAN IIS rather than local) this is useless to me as Standard doesn't support Remote Debugging.

 

And I also scored yet another 365-day evaluation copy of Windows Vista.

 

Whilst the event is free, and I really don't have a right to complain, I am seeing a shift from these launch events from Useful Days to just Advertisement Promotions.

 

Still, I'm with Irascian in saying it's better than MIX ;)

 

So in conclusion, rather than being issued with WS2008 Enterprise Trial and I'd be perfectly happy with WS2008 Standard full. Or just VS2008 Pro on its own.

 

Fortunately I can nab VS2008 off MSDNAA come September, but still... major disappointment here folks.

 

BTW, the talk at the end by the guy from MSR: was great :)

 

 

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