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Author Validity of an old unregistered MSDN Subscription
jaym1212

2005-02-10, 3:55 pm

A person, who works mostly with UNIX stuff, came across an old (2001 or
2002) MSDN Universal Subscription and has offered to sell it to me for
about a $100 which is within my meager budget. The box has 3 CDs and a
card and he doesn't know if it is still valid or if it was ever
registered. How can I find out if it was registered? And if it wasn't,
would I still be able to receive the CDs from that time period from
MSDN? TIA.

Jupiter Jones [MVP]

2005-02-10, 3:55 pm

Contact MSDN Customer Service for the facts:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/phone/

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"jaym1212" <jaym1212@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1108049698.882251.118080@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>A person, who works mostly with UNIX stuff, came across an old (2001 or
> 2002) MSDN Universal Subscription and has offered to sell it to me for
> about a $100 which is within my meager budget. The box has 3 CDs and a
> card and he doesn't know if it is still valid or if it was ever
> registered. How can I find out if it was registered? And if it wasn't,
> would I still be able to receive the CDs from that time period from
> MSDN? TIA.
>



Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer) - MVP

2005-02-10, 8:55 pm

Customer service should be able to tell you if it was registered through the
MSDN number. If not, you should also check if it can be registered and
activated. I would say "yes", but I am not sure if the change from the 6.0
days to .NET days would invalidate subs that were still sitting out there.

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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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"jaym1212" wrote:

> A person, who works mostly with UNIX stuff, came across an old (2001 or
> 2002) MSDN Universal Subscription and has offered to sell it to me for
> about a $100 which is within my meager budget. The box has 3 CDs and a
> card and he doesn't know if it is still valid or if it was ever
> registered. How can I find out if it was registered? And if it wasn't,
> would I still be able to receive the CDs from that time period from
> MSDN? TIA.
>
>

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