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DreamSpark - Free Software from Microsoft !

Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition - free. Expression Studio - for free. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition - free. It seems too good to be true, but it is the exception that proves the rule. Dream Spark Microsoft is an initiative by the company from Redmond to "inspire success, to distinguish" while at the same time, "about the imagination and the career of the students of today." With Dream Spark, Microsoft offers to students from around the world access to the software for professional developers and designers of resources. Initially the program will be available, and 35 million students in Belgium, China, Germany, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the USA

"We want to do our utmost to deal with a new generation of leaders in technology
The knowledge and the tools they need to access the magic of software for the improvement of living conditions, problems to solve, and as a catalyst for economic growth, "said Gates." Dream Spark Microsoft offers tools for professional use, which, we hope, to inspire students to explore the power of the software and encouraging forge in the next wave of software with a focus on the discovery."

But the company from Redmond is in any case limited to 35 million students. According to Microsoft, Dream Spark will slow to students, new markets by 2008 Australia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and other countries in the Americas, Asia and Europe. In the third quarter of 2008, Microsoft will also for the inclusion of students in the secondary Dream Spark.

The program includes Dream Spark Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition, Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition; XNA Game Studio 2.0; costs 12 months, a member of the Academic XNA Creators Club; Expression Web, expression blend, expression of design; Expression Media; SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition and Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.

"Student identity is determined by the two institutions, the public order or even of systems for the identification of partners who directly with Microsoft for the process of the review. You transmit binary file a simple" yes "or" no "to the admissibility. It is important that the students and the universities retain full control over the transaction. Microsoft is not a party to any personal information about the students - Protecting your privacy is of great importance for us. Once we receive the verification of eligibility, they can Procedures for checking on future visits to the website for downloading Spark Dream, "Joe Wilson, and Microsoft Senior Director of Academic Initiatives.

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