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Microsoft to End TechNet next month
Microsoft shocked a lot of people yesterday by announcing that it will shut down its TechNet subscription service on August 31, 2013. The service saw its debut in 1998 as a massive packed of CDs, and eventually evolved into a download option as broadband connections became common. TechNet provides enthusiasts with access to virtually all of Microsoft's desktop and server software, with multiple product keys, with pricing starting at just $199 a year.
TechNet was a quite popular service but it suffered from a lot of abuse. The service was intended to give enthusiasts and software developers the opportunity to evaluate and test software, but many users used it to acquire cheap licenses, or worse, to sell pirated versions of Microsoft's software with serial keys obtained via TechNet. This practice was quite lucrative for pirates, as the software keys continued to function even after the TechNet subscription expired, so Microsoft already tried to clamp down on this in recent years by placing limitations on the number of keys a TechNet subscriber could obtain.
Unfortunately, now Microsoft is cancelling the program entirely, leaving only the MSDN subscriptions, which start at $699 a year. In the e-mail copied below, Microsoft explains new subscriptions won't be accepted after August 31, 2013, and that existing subscribers may renew their subscription for one last time until September 30, 2013, via dv-hardware.
Microsoft does a 360, drops DRM and always on for Xbox One - 06/20/2013 07:09 AM
It is now confirmed that Microsoft is lifting the always on and heft DRM restrictions of the XBox One. You could say that Microsoft made a 360 after all critique. Late last night Microsoft made a few statements regarding this matter, see after the break what is changing.
Microsoft works on Surface RT with Snapdragon 800 - 06/19/2013 05:17 PM
Microsoft is testing new Surface RT tablets with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset. This new model is expected to arrive towards the end of the year. Bloomberg claims that Microsoft will update the ...
Microsoft releases Office Mobile for iOS, available to 365 subscribers - 06/17/2013 06:55 AM
Following many months of speculation and even a few leaked screens, Microsoft has finally launched a version of Office for iOS. The suite will be offered as a free download, though before you get too ...
Microsoft says Xbox 360 is its product for people who can't go online - 06/13/2013 07:42 AM
The hefty DRM and always online restrictions of the upcoming XBOX One is giving Microsoft a lot of heat, that's next to high purchase price of course. Microsoft however responded, if you can't go on...
19 Microsoft security holes on have been patched Tuesday - 06/13/2013 07:42 AM
Microsoft rolled out updates for 19 vulnerabilities on Tuesday. The batch of updates include a critical fix for a vulnerability that affects all versions of Internet Explorer, from IE6 to E10, on all ...
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#4629531 Posted on: 08/01/2013 01:50 AM
Those drivers are a month old and wont contain the latest fixes and the latest drivers already support cuda 5.5.
Those drivers are a month old and wont contain the latest fixes and the latest drivers already support cuda 5.5.
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#4629688 Posted on: 08/01/2013 09:32 AM
Not worth trying any 320.** drivers, there all bug ridden rubbish.
Not worth trying any 320.** drivers, there all bug ridden rubbish.
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#4629727 Posted on: 08/01/2013 11:28 AM
Have to disagree here.
--Alot of people have no-problems with the games that THEY play using drivers of the latest branch. Many, instead of playing every release that comes out focus on a select few that they play competitively or frequently, or a specific genre of games. For these people, their machine can be completely stable on R320+ and actually may run substantially better with them.
If for instance you just intended to use your machine for MMORPG's and RTS's, then I can't think of ANY big-name offenders offhand (stability, graphical, or otherwise) with the 320 / 326 series releases. All really a matter of what you use the machine for... 320.49, 326.19, and 326.41 have been rock-solid stable for me AND yielded pretty impressively SLI performance improvements over R313.
Point being: I don't think I'd sway people away from "trying" the new releases or just flat out call them "rubbish". (It's simply not-true) Also, "IF" noone tries the newest betas then the "real" bugs that exist (non hardware faults) will never be found, never be reported, and therefore NEVER get fixed.
It's in the interest of gamers as a whole that people be encouraged to experiment and find what personally works best for them, as there's only one way to answer what "works for you".
Not worth trying any 320.** drivers, there all bug ridden rubbish.
Have to disagree here.
--Alot of people have no-problems with the games that THEY play using drivers of the latest branch. Many, instead of playing every release that comes out focus on a select few that they play competitively or frequently, or a specific genre of games. For these people, their machine can be completely stable on R320+ and actually may run substantially better with them.
If for instance you just intended to use your machine for MMORPG's and RTS's, then I can't think of ANY big-name offenders offhand (stability, graphical, or otherwise) with the 320 / 326 series releases. All really a matter of what you use the machine for... 320.49, 326.19, and 326.41 have been rock-solid stable for me AND yielded pretty impressively SLI performance improvements over R313.
Point being: I don't think I'd sway people away from "trying" the new releases or just flat out call them "rubbish". (It's simply not-true) Also, "IF" noone tries the newest betas then the "real" bugs that exist (non hardware faults) will never be found, never be reported, and therefore NEVER get fixed.
It's in the interest of gamers as a whole that people be encouraged to experiment and find what personally works best for them, as there's only one way to answer what "works for you".
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#4629937 Posted on: 08/01/2013 05:13 PM
Well they seem sweet with my 760 sli setup in windows 7 x64, I have problems with 326.xx so these are newest best for me, so don't be discouraged to try them, they might work for you better then 326.41's
Well they seem sweet with my 760 sli setup in windows 7 x64, I have problems with 326.xx so these are newest best for me, so don't be discouraged to try them, they might work for you better then 326.41's
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#4629946 Posted on: 08/01/2013 05:28 PM
Have to disagree here.
--Alot of people have no-problems with the games that THEY play using drivers of the latest branch. Many, instead of playing every release that comes out focus on a select few that they play competitively or frequently, or a specific genre of games. For these people, their machine can be completely stable on R320+ and actually may run substantially better with them.
If for instance you just intended to use your machine for MMORPG's and RTS's, then I can't think of ANY big-name offenders offhand (stability, graphical, or otherwise) with the 320 / 326 series releases. All really a matter of what you use the machine for... 320.49, 326.19, and 326.41 have been rock-solid stable for me AND yielded pretty impressively SLI performance improvements over R313.
Point being: I don't think I'd sway people away from "trying" the new releases or just flat out call them "rubbish". (It's simply not-true) Also, "IF" noone tries the newest betas then the "real" bugs that exist (non hardware faults) will never be found, never be reported, and therefore NEVER get fixed.
It's in the interest of gamers as a whole that people be encouraged to experiment and find what personally works best for them, as there's only one way to answer what "works for you".
Yeap ive heard that explanation many times and your right. The 320.00's have all been plagued with bugs, Myself and others on Guru3D have tested them enough to know the score with the 320.**s What makes this driver any different? Testing as you have said is the only way to know and your right, but i bet you a dollar that this driver turns out to be ****. Its inevitable tbh as there is no way a driver from the 320.** is going to solve all the previous bugs fromthis ****ty branch of driver. The masses are reporting the driver branch is fail so i see nothing changing with this new driver release.
Have to disagree here.
--Alot of people have no-problems with the games that THEY play using drivers of the latest branch. Many, instead of playing every release that comes out focus on a select few that they play competitively or frequently, or a specific genre of games. For these people, their machine can be completely stable on R320+ and actually may run substantially better with them.
If for instance you just intended to use your machine for MMORPG's and RTS's, then I can't think of ANY big-name offenders offhand (stability, graphical, or otherwise) with the 320 / 326 series releases. All really a matter of what you use the machine for... 320.49, 326.19, and 326.41 have been rock-solid stable for me AND yielded pretty impressively SLI performance improvements over R313.
Point being: I don't think I'd sway people away from "trying" the new releases or just flat out call them "rubbish". (It's simply not-true) Also, "IF" noone tries the newest betas then the "real" bugs that exist (non hardware faults) will never be found, never be reported, and therefore NEVER get fixed.
It's in the interest of gamers as a whole that people be encouraged to experiment and find what personally works best for them, as there's only one way to answer what "works for you".
Yeap ive heard that explanation many times and your right. The 320.00's have all been plagued with bugs, Myself and others on Guru3D have tested them enough to know the score with the 320.**s What makes this driver any different? Testing as you have said is the only way to know and your right, but i bet you a dollar that this driver turns out to be ****. Its inevitable tbh as there is no way a driver from the 320.** is going to solve all the previous bugs fromthis ****ty branch of driver. The masses are reporting the driver branch is fail so i see nothing changing with this new driver release.
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#4630161 Posted on: 08/01/2013 09:16 PM
"Masses and the driver branch is fail." Hmm ok..
When you click the link it shows at the top Developer Zone. Do you know why its 320 not 326? Well leave it there.
Makes you wonder why Nvidia would keep using a driver in house over and over when the whole branch is fail. hehe just playing.
We have Diamond, Evga, Asus blah blah blah and though they may have the same 580/680/780 they are not the same. Then add dust and air flow and enough power and is the heatsink sitting flushly (its MY word) on the gpu again blah blah blah.
There will always be a bug somewhere for someone. They will always update to try to stay on top of them. When working with cuda, opengl directx blah blah blah sometimes you cant just have one version for all...
"Masses and the driver branch is fail." Hmm ok..
When you click the link it shows at the top Developer Zone. Do you know why its 320 not 326? Well leave it there.
Makes you wonder why Nvidia would keep using a driver in house over and over when the whole branch is fail. hehe just playing.
We have Diamond, Evga, Asus blah blah blah and though they may have the same 580/680/780 they are not the same. Then add dust and air flow and enough power and is the heatsink sitting flushly (its MY word) on the gpu again blah blah blah.
There will always be a bug somewhere for someone. They will always update to try to stay on top of them. When working with cuda, opengl directx blah blah blah sometimes you cant just have one version for all...
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#4630181 Posted on: 08/01/2013 09:42 PM
Not worth trying any 320.** drivers, there all bug ridden rubbish.
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#4630297 Posted on: 08/02/2013 12:52 AM
858MB the hell?
these are special drivers that allows me to get 100fps in sleeping dogs max settings
Because that driver is not for the public, there for Developer only which is not recommended for normal use.
858MB the hell?
these are special drivers that allows me to get 100fps in sleeping dogs max settings
Because that driver is not for the public, there for Developer only which is not recommended for normal use.
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858MB the hell?
these are special drivers that allows me to get 100fps in sleeping dogs max settings