Free Software for Students (and this is NOT a rip-off)

Free Software for Students (and this is NOT a rip-off)

Surf4Fun

16 Aug 2011 8:37 AM

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If you are a student (as in any student) in college you can get significant free software through http://Dreamspark.com.

In fact you can get Windows Server 2008 R2, which you could use as a client instead of server on a Laptop, but that requires a little effort, it COULD replace Vista on a Laptop. But that would be advanced users, and because drivers for Laptops may not work with Windows 2008 R2, you have battery exhaustion problems, and so forth.
With Windows Phone, you could create Windows Phone Apps that you can sell using the Expression Studio 4 tools with little or no programming needed.
Virtual PC can be used on Vista and XP, but isn’t needed for Windows 7 which has the Virtual PC built into the operating system
Some of the products are free and are offered in Dreamspark so that they are in the same link
Free Visual Studio 2008 Professional
Pluralsight offers free (professional grade) training

Free Visual Studio 2008 Pro, Free Pluralsight training, Free Windows 2008 R2 O/S, Limited number of free certifications, Limited number of free certificaitons, Free Software, Free Expression Studio 4

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