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students can get developer and designer tools for free

posted @ Tuesday, February 19, 2008 7:20 AM | 9 Comments

bill gates announces on channel8 a program called '' which is enabling students of higher education to obtain microsoft developer and designer tools for no charge!

over at the channel8 downloads page you'll see what is available: visual studio professional, expression studio, windows server 2003 standard, and xna game studio.  wow.  for now this is available in United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium.  the program looks to bring more countries on in the future so check back.

there is a student verification process that you have to go through and some of the frequently asked questions are available on the DreamSpark FAQ. 

what a great way to enable our future technologists to develop great software using great tools!

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SteveO
2/19/2008 10:17 AM | # re: students can get developer and designer tools for free
India has had this for the past 10 years even to free OS.

Do we really have to say great job or could we say "It's about time."

Your love of M$ may varry.
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timheuer
2/19/2008 10:33 AM | # re: students can get developer and designer tools for free
steveo: i think it's easy to point to other situations. i'm not familiar with what it took to make this happen but i know working with educational institutions and governments can be a time consuming thing. so for me, i say good job *and* about time :-).
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Piseth
2/19/2008 7:22 PM | # re: students can get developer and designer tools for free
Oh! That's Great! for this, but It's not great for this too, because it just possible for above countries, How about Cambodia, and the Other Countries, Do we Have any Opportunities to Obtain this???
I wish so...
Thanks
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timheuer
2/19/2008 8:06 PM | # re: students can get developer and designer tools for free
more countries will be coming online according to the FAQ but all of that will take time.
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Alex
2/19/2008 11:01 PM | # re: students can get developer and designer tools for free
This is great news. However, I tried for about hour and a half to download the VS8 today -- downloads get interrupted and i have re-download the software. Great!!!
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spaxx
2/20/2008 12:50 AM | # re: students can get developer and designer tools for free
I suggest Africa should not be left out of this. considering the proliferation of Linux and other open source programs, if we have no access then Africa has no MS Future. Im in Kenya. Due to kinda slow internet connections i suggest they do it by postal mails of courier services.
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Henric Moberg
2/20/2008 6:53 AM | # re: students can get developer and designer tools for free
Yay! I'm a student at Chalmers University in Gothenburg Sweden and this is great news!
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timheuer
2/20/2008 9:36 AM | # re: students can get developer and designer tools for free
spaxx: the FAQ on the site mentions about other countries coming online as they work out the details.
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Chetan Bissa
2/12/2009 9:51 PM | # re: students can get developer and designer tools for free
i want to know about developer tool

 
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