Microsoft To Release Educational Version of Minecraft (thestack.com)

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @03:46AM from the pink-floyd-on-high-alert dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has announced that it will release an educational version of the Minecraft video game after acquiring the minecraft.edu domain and IP. The classroom version of Minecraft will be offered to schools and educators at a discount, and among other innovations will include the facility to create maps which the students can navigate throughout a lesson while recording their in-game activities. Microsoft has emphasized that it does not intend to change Minecraft into a strictly educational program.

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Re:How did they get a .edu domain? by GrumpySteen · 2016-01-19 06:12 · Score: 3, Informative

They didn't.
The URL for Minecraft.EDU is https://minecraftedu.com/ which is clearly not a .edu domain name.
The .EDU is part of the name of the program, much like how Microsoft .NET does not refer to a .net domain name, but rather a software framework.