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Visual Studio and Expression free for students

Today Microsoft (by Bill Gates) released a new offer called Microsoft Dreamspark through their portal for students Channel 8.

In this new offer, the provide free of charge the Visual Studio, Windows Server 2003, Expression Studio and XNA Game Studio to all students in some country’s. Unfortunately they still haven’t find Portugal in the map, but promise to look close throughout the year…

As a student, I can’t really tell you how cool this is. Microsoft makes lots of mistakes, but their development tools was as long as I can remember their top software. Without hesitation I can easily say Visual Studio is the best IDE around… having this for free is really great.

I know there will always be someone saying Microsoft does this only to expand its monopoly through students (future professional programmers), which I find mostly true, but its nice to have more options.