Microsoft's MSDN Magazine is Ending Its Run After More Than Three Decades (onmsft.com) 70
After more than three decades of publishing editorial content and providing technical guidance to the Microsoft developer community, MSDN Magazine will publish its last issue in November. From a report: Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) was launched in 1992 to manage the relationship of the company with the developer ecosystem. MSDN Magazine originally started as two separate magazines -- Microsoft Systems Journal (MSJ) and Microsoft Internet Developer (MIND) -- which consolidated into MSDN Magazine in March 2000. The monthly magazine is available as a print magazine in the United States and online in several languages. While the March 2000 issue was entirely devoted to Windows, the MSDN Magazine has gone through its evolution over the years as Microsoft products and services expanded exponentially.
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For the phone verification system. It was actually somewhat a popular feature for a BBS System when registering your account that asked for a lot of personal info, also did a Phone Call back system. The Terminal would hang up, the BBS will call you back.
then you will need to do ATA when your terminal says RING
Then you would pick up and continue on your registration.
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As the author of one of the most popular BBS software for the Atari, I can say this wasn't a thing in any BBS software that I am aware of.
There was software that would capture the incoming caller id number, very late in the game (because caller id wasn't around for most of the BBS times), and there were a couple BBS's that I knew of that would actually call you back so that the call was on their dime, but it wasn't used for verification purposes.
Now I'm not saying it didn't exist, but it would have been far
No photo ID (Score:1)
> my photo ID (which I don't even have, and won't be getting)
My, my! How do you buy your beer and cigarettes? And you must live somewhere that you either live off the land or don't need to travel to go to a store, with those pesky driver licenses that have pictures on them.
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Yep, you learned how write programs, that were already created, and admonished for doing thing that hasn't been done before.
It's a shame... (Score:4, Interesting)
It was a good mag for those of us who were unfortunate enough to have found ourselves in a Microsoft environment. It usually had well-written articles that were more elucidative than the examples in the official docs. It also gave you some insight into what technologies Microsoft happened to be flogging that month. But I guess that blogs and online search have replaced printed media for documentation. So it goes...
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I wonder if there will be a searchable archive...
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Re:It's a shame... (Score:4, Informative)
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But "more than three decades" means all of three decades and part of a fourth; which clearly doesn't apply to MSDN.
So it's finally going to stop? (Score:2)
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lol a magazine (Score:1)
What year is it?
Seriously I cannot think of any way in which would be more useless for receiving technical information. At least a telegraph would be in easily OCR'd monospace
Re:lol a magazine (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm not going to lie, there are occasions when I miss print magazines. (PopSci, Popular Mechanics, etc) No flashing adds, no popups, no auto-playing videos. Actual curated, professional content. No vile trolls.
I get what you're saying, a magazine is terrible as a technical reference, but is a dandy medium for purveying information on up and coming tech, language changes, insights from the devs themselves, etc.
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I used to look forward to the arrival of the original, oversized version of Network World showing up in my mailbox at work. Some of it was fluff, but (for a few years, at least) there were several columnists who really knew their stuff.
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Thank you, kind AC, for your insightful and helpful input. In the future I will be sure to pay closer attention to my spelling and grammar, as to not waste your important time having to point out obvious typos. Please accept my sincere apologies.
But, since you started it:
It's an "AD".
It's not called addvertisement.
Seriously, this is supposed to be a nerd site, who apparently can spell. (Poor grammar, consider revising)
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I can C&P from a website, I can't C&P from a magazine. Print is dying for a reason, and that reason is that it's inconvenient and annoying. It's also polluting, especially these periodicals that so often go unread and simply get binned.
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"What do you need to C&P from MSDN? Code snippets? They are always published online"
So I'm supposed to read the same content in a magazine and online? Why does the magazine need to exist?
". But now they aren't going to publish the magazine at all, print or otherwise."
You know why? Because msdn is in the process of going away.
They've already made it less useful than it used to be. They're moving their software to the cloud, gradually. Eventually their plan is surely to only sell cloud-based software. Tha
Seems like they can't even keep dev docs up... (Score:3, Interesting)
I can understand why they might be closing down this magazine, it looks like they are having some kind of problem keeping even just developer documentation up.
I don't do any Windows development stuff myself these days, but I follow a few Windows only devs on Twitter who have been complaining bitterly for a few months now - after some kind of server move, apparently many, many links for even very basic things in the Windows dev docs are totally broken. On top of that it seems like a lot of the docs were just kind of bad to begin with, in that they were not very descriptive of some complex parts.
Maybe closing MSDN means Microsoft will finally bring the Windows API docs back to glory.
More than three decades? (Score:2)
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It can’t be wrong... they calculated the difference using Excel.
=C3-C2
So is Mad Magazine...Coincidence? (Score:2)
Sort of anyway...
The satirical magazine will no longer be published monthly with new material from the autumn, its owners DC Comics said. Instead there will be end-of-year specials and magazines with classic and best-of content which will be sold in comic shops and direct to subscribers. [theguardian.com]
So I bought a copy for the first time in over 3 decades...
$5.99 Cheap!
Meh, it's okay I guess.