Microsoft has had a subscriber service named "TechNet" but this is totally unrelated to the IPC peer-to-peer technical forum TechNet. If you get the ZDNet newsletters you may see a msg with subject line like below, but don't worry-- IPC is NOT shutting down our TechNet. From: ZDNet Must Read News Alerts - US [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 12:13 PM To: Jack Crawford Subject: Microsoft to shut down TechNet subscription service Jack Crawford IPC Director Certification and Assembly Technology IPC International Inc. 3000 Lakeside Dr. Suite 309S Bannockburn, IL 60015 847-597-2893 Fax 847-615-5693 [log in to unmask] www.ipc.org www.ipc.org/status www.ipc.org/certification www.ipc.org/downloads