Microsoft Giving Students Free Dev Tools: Visual Studio, XNA
February 19, 2008
Washington (dbTechno) - Microsoft will be giving college students in 10 countries free developer tools in an effort named DreamSpark, including the Microsoft Visual Studios, and many other programs. Among the other programs is the XNA studio, used to develop Xbox 360 games.
On top of the XNA studio for the Xbox 360 and Visual Studio, Microsoft is also giving students access to their Expression Web design tools.
Microsoft senior director of academic initiatives Joe Wilson stated “You can go build software applications. You can go build Web sites. You can do a really cool Facebook application. There are a lot of possibilities that comes with this small list of products.”
Microsoft is making a move to bring the program worldwide for college and high school students very soon. As of right now though it is available in 10 countries, including the U.S., UK, China, Germany, and France.
Wilson stated that the “next generation and future generations of technologists, they are vital to an industry leader like us.”
DreamSpark is an initiative Microsoft has started to try and get college and high school students interested in development of applications and other programs. They hope by offering these free, they will garner more interest and attention.
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I think that’s really awesome; people should be given the opportunity to be able to access this high level software at a younger age. I’m of the mind that one should learn to hone and develop the necessary ’skill sets’ to access at a later time in their personal trajectory, no matter what age they might be / the monetary level of their disposable income. I think the target group being hit at a younger period in their development will especially allow their introductory phase to garner a deeper ‘probing’ of the fundamental utlities offered by the software, and in turn allow them to make better use of their understanding / smoother sailing down their stretch of water.