Re: MSDN Flash - Jump-start your development on Windows 7

  • From: "Bryan Schulz" <b.schulz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:35:16 -0600

hi,

you can't download windows 7 without a technet account.
is there some way to do this without paying over $300 for a technet account?

Bryan Schulz
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  Hi.  I'd be interested to subscribe to msdn.  Is it free, and can i get the 
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