IT Bytes

Finally managed to get the download subscription from Remix working, only about a month late! However, getting the correct subscription information was only the first hurdle. Once armed with the information to subscribe to the american site (where the downloads live) I hurried to the download only to discover that although the keys were now ready the download was greyed out. Turns out that it doesn’t like Firefox on the Mac (MS sites can really be bad examples of how to write web sites, especially ironic given this is the Expression site). So fired up Vista and tried again. Hurray the download was ready so clicked it….

 

 

Erm ok, played around with the IE settings and no joy. Went the link in the message, ‘bad page’. Oh wonderful, I can see this is a really great example of a web site. To be fair there is some info about this in the FAQ page, although I found the easiest solution was to go and download the msi for File Transfer Manager. Once installed things started to work. So I’ve now finally managed to download a disk full of iso images and a Vista iso mounting driver from http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html

 

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It appears that Microsoft are trying to learn from Apple, that really was a very painful dowload experience similar to the farce of downloading DRM material from iTunes. But don’t worry because we’re soon going to be putting all our life into the cloud…<gulp>

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