EDIT: I got through. Thanks.
Edit: nvm, it's all sold out
The fundamental issue this doesn't address is that developers don't care about Microsoft any more. I've worked in the Microsoft world for nearly two decades, it was how I earned my money, now people are offering £80,000 a year roles for JavaScript.
Probably not the effect MS wanted here.
Edit: Got an order confirmation via email. However, I really think when you are dealing with payments you should implement a more detailed explanation than a javascript alert of "something went wrong"
Edit: Managed to get on the page and create an account after some f5 hammering. Turns out all you need to do is create an account with the same email you used in the order and it will display the order status.
Name, Address, Apt/Suite, City, State/Province/Region, Zip
EDIT: I solved the puzzle ok, but the form which comes up only has the fields above
EDIT2: thanks - I think the problem is the website not loading properly due to congestion so certain page elements weren't visible.
Also, what are the credentials? Wasn't asked for any password ...
Unless you mean the disabled "I'm a developer" button -- that was intentional and supposed to be fun.
edit: nvm, I finally got through, only 1 order confirmation :)
With the USB key promo, you get a full license for parallels and a full license for Win8.
That makes it a pretty awesome deal. Shame they sold out!
Enabled the button, clicked it, nothing happened. Looked in Firebug at the Network console, saw a failure come back from the 'Pay' step.
Triple-checked my payment info, clicked the button once more. 25-30 seconds later, I got two consecutive "Something went wrong" javascript alerts. A minute or so later, I got two confirmation emails, lacking any useful details. I'm guessing I was charged twice.
Once it is possible to log into the site, I will see what my order status says. Right now /login continues to time-out.
I have one pending charge on my credit card, not sure if anything else will go through, but I did end up getting an order confirmation.
Maybe whatever they're using to route SSL traffic through is falling over?
https://swish.com/swish-frontend/views/buy-devkit.html?p=dev...
In all fairness, I don't have any immediate needs for Windows development, and it's by no means a certainty that I would have actually built something Windows-centric, so it's probably no great loss for either side.
I'm assuming they're using Stripe from the little message on my JS console, but I'm having some serious trouble getting it to accept my payment (in Safari on Mac OS X, Chrome isn't connecting at all).
EDIT: I am getting "something went wrong :(" after clicking submit, two or three times now.
Just tried, submited payment info, got message back after a minute.
Parallels + pirated windows 8 isn't too hard to set up, but for any billable rate, $25 is a good deal.
k thx
Oh well.
Does Microsoft think the Mac developer community is somewhat relevant to their future?
