Today
Microsoft announced the DreamSpark program. For students from United
States, the United Kingdom, China, Germany, France, Finland, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium there is now a program to get Microsoft
products without charge. In the second wave more countries are served.
The current list of products is:
- Visual Studio 2008 Professional
- Visual Studio 2005 Professional
- XNA Game Studio 2.0
- 12-month free membership in the XNA Creators Club
- Expression Studio (Expression Web, Expression Blend, Expression Design, Expression Media)
- Windows Server Standard Edition (2005, 2008 from next semester on)
- SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition
- [Update] Virtual PC 2007 [/Update]
For everyone who looks puzzled like me;
here Bill Gates is talking about free software, students and technologies.
The DreamSpark Program is hosted
here and the initial blog entry is from
Veni, Vidi, Velcro.
Finally, I was headed towards this great announcement by
heise news.