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Official MSDN Subscriptions Blog

An ongoing blog run by the managers of the online and offline MSDN Subscriptions program.

Hello Folks,

We've had some reports over the last few hours where customers have been receiving errors when requesting Windows 7 Beta product keys. We can confirm that we are having trouble distributing Windows 7 Beta product keys right now. Since Windows has a grace period built in before a product key is required, please dont hesitate to download and use the Beta without the product key. We will post information here as soon as this is resolved.

Thanks!

MSDN Subscriptions Website OverhaulDecember 17 2008

Notice anything different? The MSDN Subscriptions website has been updated. These updates are intended to make it easier for you to use your Subscription by improving the site navigation, page layout, and includes updates to the site content itself. The new design has been launched in en-us to start and then in 2009, we'll roll it out globally. Please tell us what you think.

The Subscriptions Site Management Team

New Subscriptions RSS Feeds!November 21 2008

Today the Subscriptions team is launching new RSS feeds for newly posted items in MSDN, TechNet, and Expression Subscriptions. These new feeds are always up to date, updated programmatically when new products are added to Subscriber Downloads. The new feeds are also language specific, now you can sign up for one feed for each language of products you’re interested in, and ignore the rest.

If you have subscribed to the previous RSS feeds, you should see some new items in the feed that say “MSDN Subscriber Downloads RSS has moved - click this item to see the new <language> Downloads.” Go ahead and click on the items that have the languages you are interested in and then subscribe to those new RSS feeds in your favorite reader.

Note: The old feed will no longer be updated. You must subscribe to one of the new feeds to continue recieving updates.

These RSS feeds are also available on the subscriptions homepage and on the downloads page under ‘New MSDN Downloads’ or ‘New TechNet Downloads.’

Don’t see these links in your language? If you visit the MSDN Subscriptions homepage, and you don’t see the RSS links for your language, you can still get an RSS feed. Just take the English RSS url, and swap out the ‘en-us’ language/locale combination with the one from your homepage. So if you’re in Norway, you see the homepage as

InstaSurvey 7002 (Newly Added Subscriber Files) RESULTSNovember 7 2008

http://blogs.msdn.com/msdnsubscriptions/archive/2008/09/25/it-is-time-for-another-survey-instasurvey-7002-newly-added.aspx

THANKS FOR YOUR FEEDBACK - HERE ARE THE RESULTS:

For those of you that responded during the comment period, thank you for your feedback. Here is a summary of the feedback:

Like/Dislike Stats:

Like 11
Dislike 1

Comments/Suggestions, and [and any Microsoft comments]:

Update the RSS more often [New fully programmatic RSS feeds are expected to go live later in November - taking away all latency]
Wants 30 days rather than 60 days duration [this would likely come with additional personalization beyond v1.0, but we hear you!]
Wants to be able to select his own period for “new” - this month, last month, this week, last week or even a specific date [this would likely come with additional personalization beyond v1.0, but we hear you!]
I love it! I don’t know why this wasn't’t in the new design from the start. Everyone wants to know, at-a-glance, what is new since whatever date.
All aspects of the design make sense to me. I can’t wait for the implementation!
I like it, but it’s not really what I would expect. I would expect just the newly added content to appear. The mock-ups appear to support

Subscriptions sign in and Windows LiveId issues should be completely resolved nowOctober 28 2008

As I have posted elsewhere, fixes for all of our Subscriptions web site and Windows LiveId sign in issues have been installed into our production system. If you still have issues signing into Windows LiveId and visiting the Subscriptions web sites, I’d love to hear from you – because you are experiencing a problem that we aren’t aware of. Please sign into the blog and email me from my profile page with your contact details and I'll get you some help.

Chris Deluca