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Microsoft to Give Away Developer Tools to Students

Posted by samzenpus on from the first-hit's-free dept.

beuges writes "The Associated Press is reporting that Microsoft will make full versions of their development tools available to students. "The Redmond-based software maker said late Monday 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. Gates said students will want to try Microsoft's tools because they're more powerful than the open-source combination of Linux-based operating systems, the Apache Web server, the MySQL database and the PHP scripting language used to make complex Web sites. But Gates said giving away Microsoft software isn't intended to turn students against open source software entirely. Rather, he hopes it will just add one more tool to their belt.""

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  1. Re:Almost Thar ... Stay on Target! by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Incidentally does anyone know how to get the crazy alpha-release Anjuta that's in the Gutsy repos to accept cin input during debugging? I have nowhere to enter input.. and the old, good Anjuta doesn't work with Gutsy.

  2. Mod parent insightful by davidwr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Funny too but insightful helps "teh karma"

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