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.
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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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Not worth trying any 320.** drivers, there all bug ridden rubbish.
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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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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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858MB the hell?
these are special drivers that allows me to get 100fps in sleeping dogs max settings