Tag: microsoft ireland

  • Microsoft gives development software free to (some) students

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    Tom Raftery
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    Microsoft announced a program called DreamSpark recently. DreamSpark is a program to give over $2,000 worth of Microsoft development software to students free! The free software available to students includes: Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition XNA Game Studio 2.0 12-month free membership in the XNA Creators Club Expression Studio, which…

  • Microsoft Licensing blog

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    Tom Raftery
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    Via Martha Rotter’s blog (Martha is Rob Burke‘s replacement in Microsoft Ireland and I bet she hates being introduced that way!), I see that Microsoft Ireland have started a Microsoft Licensing blog. This is a great idea because licensing Microsoft’s software correctly in any kinds of numbers is unbelievably complex. I often wonder if it…