Free Official Microsoft DreamSpark

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Bill Gates annouced yesterday that Microsoft is giving some freebies away to students in 11 countries. The countries are United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium,

The software to be given away to students are:
Visual Studio 2008 - Professional Edition
Expression Studio
Widows Server 2003 Standard Edition
XNA Game Studio 2.0
XNA Club Online
SQL Server 2005
Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition
Visual C# 2005 Express Edition
Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
Visual Web 2005 Express Edition
Visual J# 2005 Express Edition
Virtual PC

https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/

DreamSpark is simple, it's all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and design tools at no charge so you can chase your dreams and create the next big breakthrough in technology - or just get a head start on your career.

Who can get this right now?
We are kicking this off in 11 countries/regions, giving DreamSpark to millions of students in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium. If you are not residing in one of the countries listed keep checking back, we will be adding more countries throughout the year.

Does that mean that I might not get in?
Possibly, if you are not residing in one of the countries listed, not attending an accredited university or not a member of one of the student organizations that we're connected with. But keep checking back, as we're working on adding more ways to verify your student status all the time.

What do I have to do to get this software? Not much really, just select a product and follow the steps below.

Sign In with your Windows Live ID. If you don't have one, go get one here. Pretty basic stuff.

Get verified as a student. The system is linked to schools and organizations around the world that can confirm student status. Simply choose your country and school, enter your info and hit submit.

Download your products. Now remember these are professional tools. This means they are pretty big files so make sure you have the bandwidth and space to bring them to your machine. We support the latest versions of both Internet Explorer and Firefox for your download.
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Cool, this could be promising. Thanks for the link.

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I didnt see that someone already posted the annoucement, But didnt post the link and all the software and tools unitl 8:08pm in another thread after I just posted the signup and download link. But anyways.........C'est la vie.

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