Microsoft TechNet

Microsoft TechNet
	Original logo, used from 1998 to c. 2006
Type of site	Knowledge base
Successor(s)	Microsoft Learn
Owner	Microsoft
URL	Archived official website at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
Launched	1998
Current status	offline; subscriptions terminated since August 31, 2013;

Microsoft TechNet was a Microsoft web portal and web service for IT professionals. It included a library containing documentation and technical resources for Microsoft products, a learning center providing online training, discussion forums, an evaluation center for downloading trialware, blogs for Microsoft employees and a wiki.

TechNet originally provided a software subscription service similar to Office 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud that allowed subscribers to download Microsoft software under a software as service license for private use. On July 1, 2013, it was announced that Microsoft would be discontinuing the TechNet subscription service, with the purchase and renewal of subscriptions to be closed by August 31, 2013.^[1]

TechNet also included a web-based TechNet Magazine which has been discontinued since October 2013. Past issues are still available for reading.

As of January 2020, TechNet redirects to Microsoft Docs.^[2]

^ Bott, Ed (1 July 2013). "Microsoft to shut down TechNet subscription service". ZDNet. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
^ kexugit. "Welcome to docs.microsoft.com". docs.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2019-12-29.

[1] Bott, Ed (1 July 2013). "Microsoft to shut down TechNet subscription service". ZDNet. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 27 February 2014.

[2] xugit. "Welcome to docs.microsoft.com". docs.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2019-12-29.

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