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RobertoOrtiz
02-25-2008, 02:16 PM
Microsoft Corp. is giving students free access to its most sophisticated tools for writing software and making media-rich Web sites, a move that intensifies its competition with Adobe Systems Inc. and could challenge open source software's popularity.

ast week Microsoft announced that it will let students download Visual Studio Professional Edition, a software development environment; Expression Studio, which includes graphic design and Web site and hybrid Web-desktop programming tools; and XNA Game Studio 2.0, a video game development program.

The company will also give away SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition and Windows Server Standard Edition.

link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080219/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_dreamspark;_ylt=As.NsZjLdEeU0d99x0IwZxAjtBAF)
Tlock
02-26-2008, 12:26 AM
Ok, if this is true than it's truly huge.
salmonmoose
02-26-2008, 05:44 AM
I do love how part of the package is XNA, which is already free ;)

Although, no love for Australia, MS seems to hate us at the moment.
cosmonaut
02-26-2008, 01:44 PM
I do love how part of the package is XNA, which is already free ;)

Although, no love for Australia, MS seems to hate us at the moment.

They are giving away creator's club subscriptions to students for free, normally that's a $100 a year...
salmonmoose
02-27-2008, 12:53 AM
Yeah I got that part ;)

I'm just a little miffed that I can't pretend to be a student so I can get in on that :)

I feel a niggle of bitterness being asked to pay to install MY code on MY console :deal:
Szos
02-27-2008, 01:45 AM
ANyone actually use Expression?

I checked it out when it was still in Beta and it did look pretty darn cool.... but MS always makes their stuff proprietary, so I figure that any Expression-designed site wouldn't run well on any browser other than IE (even if they claim that it uses Standard code).
salmonmoose
02-27-2008, 02:08 AM
I use expression web, when I'm not in the mood to dig through HTML code and just want something quick.

Ironically, building pages for IE in Expression is a painful experience, because Expression gets it right :)

The code it spits out is much nicer than Dreamweaver, and it deals with CSS very well.

However, it has some quirks -

It's not very PHP friendly (who'd have guessed), in fact I don't think it works well with any language that isn't ASP.NET the developers promise we can expect better functionality in version 2.

It also saves documents with leading doc-type bits - which it technically SHOULD, however PHP can't deal with them and you often have to remove them by hand, or you get random characters when you include files (This is a known bug in PHP, and has been for years).
cosmonaut
02-27-2008, 01:53 PM
Yeah I got that part ;)

I'm just a little miffed that I can't pretend to be a student so I can get in on that :)

I feel a niggle of bitterness being asked to pay to install MY code on MY console :deal:

Yeah, I feel ya, I'm in the same boat :(
Kentaro
03-05-2008, 06:16 PM
what happened to the LINK?
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