Students get free MS Developer Tools

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I did a search and was surprised I did not find this. If I missed the thread I am sorry for wasting anyone's time.

DreamSpark is simple, it's all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and design tools at no charge so you can chase your dreams and create the next big breakthrough in technology - or just get a head start on your career. Full list of available products to include; Visual Studio, Windows Server, SQL Server and other full product versions.

Who can get this right now?
We are kicking this off in 11 countries/regions, giving DreamSpark to millions of students in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium. If you are not residing in one of the countries listed keep checking back, we will be adding more countries throughout the year.

What do I have to do to get this software?

Not much really, just select a product and follow the steps below.

- Sign In with your Windows Live ID. If you don't have one, go get one here.
- Get verified as a student. The system is linked to schools and organizations around the world that can confirm student status. Simply choose your country and school, enter your info and hit submit.
- Download your products. Due to size of this tool, the files are quite large so make sure you have the bandwidth and enough space to bring them to your machine. We support the latest versions of both Internet Explorer and Firefox for your download.



The program has been running for a while now. It was originally posted in the Free Stuff forum, which not a lot of people here frequent.

Free Microsoft Software for students (Dreamspark)


does it count if i'm a student of life


Isn't this like Microsoft Academic Alliance?

I have that and I have access to a ton of developer tools.

Two different copies of Vista business
4 Different versions of XP pro
like 8 server 2000
4 server 2003
they just uploaded server 2008 for download too

Academic Alliance Store Front

check out that page.


Burzhui said: does it count if i'm a student of life
Sure...provided that their system can confirm your student status.


Sweet! Thanks!




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