CompuServe Messages

(PMJI) The *preliminary* Microsoft Developer's Network CD-ROM goes for $30. That get's you 2 prelim CD's which have a wealth of information and a great three-tiered navigation scheme (Index, Search and Viewer). The nine major index topics are Highlights, Technical Articles (MS internal stuff), Sample Code, Resource and Strategy (MS Tech direction), Knowledge Base and Bug Lists, Books and Magazine Articles (including the complete Petzold book and Microsoft Systems Journal), Product Documentation, Product Tools and Utilities, and Unsupported Tools and Utilities. Extremely valuable stuff for developers. I believe the actual product will be updated quarterly, and have heard prices in the $195 to $295 range, would assume this would be an annual subscription fee. I'm hoping the prelim owners get some sort of a break for debugging efforts <g>. Regards, Mark