Quick Technet question

Papahyooie · Jun 24, 2010

Im interested in buying a technet subscription. My question is, I've heared of people using these subscriptions for personal use (ie on home computers.) According to their terms of service this seems to be okay, but "sketchy," possibly against the terms because it isn't being used in a testing environment. Does anyone have any experience with this? They're not going to revoke my subscription or something for using it in this way right?

Solaris17 · Jun 24, 2010

negative

Papahyooie · Jun 24, 2010

negative as you cant use it like that, or negative as in they're not going to revoke it?

slyfox2151 · Jun 24, 2010

negative as in they're not going to revoke it

i think thats what he ment.....

t_ski · Jun 24, 2010

If they say anything, you could always state it is for educational puposes. In fact, I've been told it's tax deductable as an education expense.

newtekie1 · Jun 24, 2010

You are not supposed to use it in this fashion. However they are not going to revoke your subscription if you do, in fact they have no way of knowing...

Papahyooie · Jun 24, 2010

t_ski said:
If they say anything, you could always state it is for educational puposes. In fact, I've been told it's tax deductable as an education expense.

Thats what I figured... "evaluation and testing" after all is a pretty wide term...

twilyth · Jun 24, 2010

I've been using keys from technet on about 4 rigs over the past year with no problem. But they all use the same IP address - if that matters. I think it's sort of understood as long as you don't abuse it - like handing out keys to friends and shit.

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