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Feb 20 2008   10:27AM GMT

DreamSpark: Free Microsoft software for students



Posted by: Brian Eastwood
General Microsoft news, .NET programming downloads

Microsoft’s efforts to attract young developers entered its latest, and biggest, stage this week with the announcement of the DreamSpark program.

Through DreamSpark, certified students can get free versions of the following products:

  • Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition
  • Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition
  • Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
  • SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition
  • Expression Studio
  • XNA Game Studio 2.0
  • XNA Creators Club Online

As the DreamSpark site indicates, thus far the program is open to residents of 11 countries; alphabetically, they are Belgium, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

DreamSpark represents a huge expansion of Microsoft’s free product push, aimed primarily at students but at more casual developers. The move began with the Visual Studio and SQL Server Express editions and had been extended with the Web mashup tool Popfly.

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FredAtMicrosoft  |   Feb 21 2008   8:23PM GMT

If you’re in the US, you can get a free version of SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition by attending one of the Heroes Happen Here launch events. There’ll also be experts on hand to answer any questions you might have about these programs.

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


 

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Sujithkumar  |   Apr 3 2011   9:50AM GMT

This is good that the DreamSpark certified students will get free versions of software’s. In today’s world software’s are very much costly all students can’t afford such high end software’s. Some students have the urge to become a good software developer but they are deprived of such costly software’s and then they use duplicate software’s and because of this privacy is spreading worldwide… So to lessen up the piracy this is a good effort and students will also be happy with the free versions

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