I'm personally amazed that MSFT would want to spike a perfect well respected/recieved and universally popular program like TechNet. Personally, future doesn't look to rosey for enterprize software were the only place to access it is shrinked wrapped in the cloud. As move to an era were increasingly IT professionals are required to maintain their own education, learning and certification - the vendors such as Microsoft that lie at the heart of that are pulling up the draw bridge...
Regards
Mike