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Since the launch of the new portal, there’s been intermittent slow performance on Subscriber Downloads. Periodically the “Loading” dialog would last for up to 15 seconds. Thanks to all of you who reported this. Last week we released...

Mark Curphey here ( @curphey on Twitter) I am delighted to say that we have just released the new MSDN Subscriber portal for all MSDN Subscribers. We used to RTM, we now RTW! http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions The new portal is the culmination of...

I want to let you know that the MSDN-TechNet Subscriptions 2.0 Beta will end on November 16. The MSDN-Technet Subscriptions engineering team and I want to thank all of you who used the Beta and provided feedback; it’s been extremely valuable to...

Bob Vogt here. As Mark mentioned in his last post, we've been investigating the download issues that some subscribers have been reporting. Along the way, we've made several changes the new network that have improved the experience for some but not...

Mark Curphey here (@curphey ) We have just published the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview files live for all MSDN Subscribers - http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/ Files now live include Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview, Team Foundation Server...

Mark Curphey here We are actively investigating intermittent reports of slow download speeds and some files not completing their  full download size in some parts of the world. We made changes to the network yesterday and expect to make more later...

Mark Curphey here ( @curphey ). A few weeks ago I mentioned that we had made a decision to remove the additional download manager required for subscribers and were in the process of some engineering work to roll-out that experience to all subscribers...

Hey Everyone, Just a quick update today on that super-fast Azure CDN Mark was talking about in his last post. Yesterday we moved some files over to use that CDN, and we made a few changes so that no Download Manager is needed to download these files...

A quick update on my last post notifying users that we temporarily switched back to the old download system. After a lot of testing this week we think we have identified the issues we were experiencing and will be testing some prototype code this weekend...

We are investigating some reported cases of intermitent issues in very specific circumstances with the new download system for MSDN & TechNet so have temporarily switched back all file downloads to the previous system. We don't yet have an ETA on...

Mark Curphey here ( @curphey on Twitter and http://www.curphey.com on the web)  I am the Group Program Manager for the Subscriptions team here at Microsoft looking after the talented  and hard working Program Managers, Developers and Testers...

Hey Everyone, Just a quick note: we are conducting maintenance on Subscriber Downloads starting 9:30pm tonight (US West Coast time), and lasting until 4:30am tomorrow morning (again, US West Coast Time). During the outage, customers will see errors...

We’re working on some big improvements that you’ll be seeing in the coming months, but we don’t want to lose sight of the small things we can do to improve the site right now. The other day I read someone’s feedback about how it...

Just in case you missed Soma’s Happy 1st Birthday, Visual Studio 2010! blog post on April 12th, if you’re an existing Visual Studio Professional, Premium or Ultimate with MSDN subscriber, you get up-to $3,100 in annual Windows Azure platform benefits...

In June, we will be conducting a series of focus groups and usability studies in San Jose & Sunnyvale CA, Seattle, and New York.  The research will help us better understand customer experience in usability, benefits, and other areas.  The...

Mark Curphey here again (@curphey on Twitter) I was in a meeting with a senior person in the company the other day who said “You know what I really want for my MSDN Subscriptions is an RSS feed of the products as they are published”. Guess what, we already...

Mark Curphey here again In May we will be running some customer research studies in the US (Silicon Valley & New York), China ( Beijing) (Shanghai) , India (Bangalore) and Germany (Frankfurt) (Munich). Our Program Managers who will be part of the...

Mark Curphey here again ( @curphey on Twitter and www.curphey.com on the web) This Friday post is a very simple set of questions but before I ask them I wanted to set the context. The subscriptions team have been discussing the idea of packaging up specific...

Intro Mark Curphey here (@curphey on Twitter and www.curphey.com on the web). I am the Group Program Manager for the Server and Tools Online Subscriptions team. We develop the Subscriptions web site and the infrastructure that powers your MSDN (and TechNet...

We know that product activation can be a very complicated thing to figure out for developers, where environements are constantly torn down and rebuilt, and activations are not unlimited. I was just alerted of a few more resources that you may find...

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We see that everyone seems to be getting their bits and keys ok for Windows 7. Demand has been phenomenal, and WWW traffic overall today very high, so speeds may be a bit slower than you are used to. There have been several follow up questions I thought...

Enjoy! https://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/securedownloads/default.aspx?pv=36:350 and alternate download location (through Akamai): https://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/securedownloads/bb608344.aspx 8PM Update Early...

Reposting for higher visibility: We have had almost 100 unposted comments asking what time we will post Windows 7 RTM. Rather than posting them all, I'll just say that we will make some announcements when it is made available for download. You can...