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Managing Subscription Media and Other Items

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Managing Your Subscription Media

Here’s a topic that never seems to go out of style. We periodically receive inquiries from subscribers on managing subscription media. Depending on your language pack preferences, 12 shipments per year can place a toll on even our best-organized subscribers. While a wide variety of solutions exist, the MSDN Index that ships each month with your subscription media includes a Microsoft Access database with all disc title and product information included to assist you with running your own reports. In addition, many subscribers have found the Disc Stakka to be an ideal solution for managing and tracking their MSDN Subscription media. For more information, please visit https://msdn.imation.com.

Please send me a few of the creative ways you manage MSDN Subscription media, and I’ll pull together some of the more intriguing ideas for a future post.

Windows Vista build 5365

We've received several inquiries on the status of Windows Vista build 5365 and when it might be added to MSDN Subscriptions. As indicated by several press accounts, build 5365 is only being released to the TAP, Beta Program and Partners. Build 5365 is not a CTP or IDW build and will not be released to MSDN.

We expect to receive Windows Vista Beta 2 later this spring and will make it available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads as soon as possible.

New Managed Forums Benefit

MSDN Subscribers in North America are invited to participate in a pilot managed forums benefit. This benefit provides that questions posted by MSDN Subscribers in select forums are guaranteed a response from Microsoft within 48 hours. The selected forums include Visual C# General, Visual Basic General, Windows Forms General, and Visual Studio General and have been selected based on current MSDN subscriber traffic.

Access the Managed Forums pilot through the MSDN Subscriber Downloads Sign In located above.

Need Microsoft Press Books?

Through June 15, 2006 only, Microsoft is partnering with Quantum Books to bring MSDN Subscribers a special offer on select Microsoft Press titles.

For more details, Sign In above and click “Subscriber Downloads and Product Keys” to view the offer.

Best regards,

Seth Adams

Program Manager, MSDN Subscriptions

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2006
    I totally don't like the Stackka.  It is just a bulky, hard to use binder with a powercord that makes it easy to scew up, hard to fix.

    Worse, I don't see the price for one with a drive having to be significantly higher (attach a vertically mounted cd drive that is slot fed at a fixed point inside with a feed mechanism and bob is yer uncle, just double up on the USB 2.0 port)  For less than 300$ it would easily be feasible.

    As it is, I can flip through the database, get the disk and flip through the binder and then jam it into the drive, and all without it costing me anything extra.  If the discs get out of order in the binder, it is fixable in the blink of eye.  I don't have to unload/reload the entire device in what promises to be a painful, time wasting ordeal.

    Of course, there is that 1500$ dollar unit that does exactly what a I would think is useful, except it is over priced by about 1200$.

    Anyone with some mechanical engineering skills wanna fill the void?  robotic usb based dvd drive caddy for 300$ would sell to this crowd like hotcakes to be sure.