>>Is there a current Microsoft Empower ISV program or a successor with similar cheap MSDN bennies?
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>I get MSDN Pro for $386 a year from an outfit called Software Wholesale International. That's a lot cheaper than buying it from Microsoft and as a professional developer I consider it a reasonable cost of doing business. I know you are not shy about buying tools that make you more productive.
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>Our conversation about the Grateful Dead earlier today has left me in all Grateful Dead / all the time mode. I would post some YouTube links if it wouldn't annoy John Baird so much.
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>Oh wait....
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>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e231uv5Ae34
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4SqDx1vi4c
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWuQiGaIsso

$386? That's a pretty good deal. There is something on their website about a promotion ending June 30, 2012
http://www.software-intl.com/swi/visual-studio-2010-with-msdn-attach-promotion-ends-june-30-2012

You hear Bob Welch (FleetwoodMac guitarist - 1971-1974) died?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/07/showbiz/bob-welch-dead/index.html

e231uv5Ae34

V4SqDx1vi4c

AWuQiGaIsso