Microsoft to give away development software for students

Posted by Danny Sanchez on February 20th 2008 to data

visualstudio.pngFor all you aspiring journo-programmers, Microsoft has a treat for you: free software! Woot!

Microsoft is launching a new initiative, DreamSpark, to offer up development and design software free to students, probably in hopes of weaning them from open-source solutions. The following expensive software will be offered free to students as part of the program:

It doesn’t get any better than pricey software for free, my friends, especially if ASP.NET (Microsoft’s flavor of Web development) is your bag. Kinda makes you want to go take a community college course for that student ID just to take advantage of this free stuff (plus 2 bucks off movies, of course).

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One Response to “Microsoft to give away development software for students”

  1. FredAtMicrosoft
    February 21st, 2008 | 9:19 pm

    If this makes you disappointed you didn’t take that extra two years for your double major, you can also get a free version of SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition by attending the Heroes Happen Here launch events around the US.

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    Fred Reckling
    Microsoft 2008 Joint Launch Team
    http://www.microsoft.com/2008jointlaunch/