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bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 03 Jun 2009, 12:15

It works:

https://om2.one.microsoft.com/offer/technet_emea.aspx

Total Price = Absolutely nothing!

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 03 Jun 2009, 15:35

More about it here:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2 ... iption.ars

It's part of a 3 month free trial.

IronMonkey · Post by **IronMonkey** » 03 Jun 2009, 23:21

Linky no worky.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 04 Jun 2009, 03:20

Either they've taken it down or it's fallen over, keep trying.

That Arstechnica link says, at some point you could get keys but now you just get an error (that's all I get). I imagine it's proven very popular, who knows if MS intended it for the world or selected people.

The actual Technet link works but I imagine if it's of no use, if you've not created your account yet:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/subs ... fault.aspx

p.s - Also in the Arstechnica link are USA and Canadian links, they give the same error too.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 04 Jun 2009, 03:35

None of the download links are actually working on that Technet link any more. I managed to get XP with SP3 but wanted Vista with SP2 also. I was about to kick it off now. Bollocks!

edit: Check out that Arstechnica link:

Update 3

Microsoft has caught on.

Oh well.

Annoyingly I had Vista with SP2 in the queue but cancelled it and when I reload the Download Manager ActiveX EXE it no longer is in the queue. That's here:

C:\Windows\Downloaded Program Files\TransferMgr.exe

I knew I should've started it downloading while I had the chance. Ah well never mind. I only wanted a slipstreamed SP2 disc. I have an SP1 one, so it's no big deal. I'll be getting Windows 7 on release, so I doubt I'll need it anyway.

The rest of Technet seems to be working, more than I had before.