Hope someone can help me, I asked a similar question here http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/297c41a2-b71a-4f30-9e13-9b638f7a74bd/upgrade-windows-8-ent-to-window-81-ent-after-msdn-subscription-finished?forum=w8itproinstall and was advised by Don Pick to try here also.
This concerns windows 8 ent and what I thought should have been a free upgrade to win 8.1 ent but I cannot find any way to access the iso.
I had an vs2012 ultimate + msdn under a 3 year ova agreement which expired last year Dec 2012. I have no msdn or any other vol licensing agreements now. Under my perpetual licenses I have retail keys for win 8 + pro and MAK for win8 ent and wish to upgrade the latter to 8.1. Ordinarily I would not be entitled to upgrades as my msdn has ended but given the special circumstances with windows 8 this is more of a patch/update than a new version plus the upgrades have been touted as free.
I checked here http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/springboard/archive/2013/10/18/windows-8-1-general-availability-the-it-pro-perspective.aspx and the Vol lic site https://www.microsoft.com/Licensing/servicecenter/default.aspx shows my keys for every version of windows os except win 8 or 8.1. I kept a record of my keys listed on the msdn download section and I have win 8 keys as mentioned above saved.
Seems a special case all around I cannot understand why those win 8 keys were in the msdn subscription area and not vlsc - most odd.
I have been an msdn subscriber since vs 2005 and cancelled my subscription last year at the ultimate level very reluctantly as I could no longer justify the cost and could not downgrade as this would void my perpetual licenses. As you can image I have poured considerable sums into Microsoft over the years and am very unhappy with the whole situation. Now it appears I cannot even upgrade for free from windows 8 to 8.1 certainly at the enterprise sku level and maybe not at the pro level either (I have not tried this though). Too time consuming to re pave my developer machine.
The irony is I was going to look at getting an application into the store. Guess Microsoft has no love for developers.
Given the special case of a discontinued msdn subscription with win 8 skus :
Is an upgrade from win 8 ent to 8.1 ent possible?
And for win 8 pro to 8.1 pro?
Any advise would be much appreciated.
Thank you.