DreamSpark - Free Software for all UK Students

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BioSensorAB » DreamSpark - Free Software for all UK Students — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:49:09 GMT

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edunhill — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:08:27 GMT

There is an interesting interview with Bill Gates on Channel8 about DreamSpark which you can check out here: http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/2047/

DreamSpark is here.... Visual/Expression Studio and more for FREE for university students...

Mark Johnston's Blog — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:57:42 GMT

The skinny: Where? https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com What? Loads of dev and design products Visual

DreamSpark is here!

UK Academic Team Blog — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:46:43 GMT

What's this?  Free developer software for every student in the UK?   Ed Dunhill has all the

DreamSpark is here!

Noticias externas — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:27:58 GMT

What's this?  Free developer software for every student in the UK? Ed Dunhill has all the details

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Neil — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:09:31 GMT

Would be most beneficial if we could also gain access to Microsoft Project through this. What's a software development project without proper scheduling and management?!

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Andy Paton — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:39:57 GMT

Unfortunalty ASTON UNIVERSITY isn't listed on the site so no every student in the UK can get this... There are many other universities missing from the signup page too!

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Thomas Winwood — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:57:40 GMT

Hello, I'm a student at Oxford Brookes University and I was quite excited to hear about the DreamSpark offer; however, when I went to sign up I discovered that Brookes was not listed on the list of establishments, preventing me from taking advantage of the offer.

Would you happen to have any information about participating institutions, and/or what I can do to get my university involved?

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Ben Metcalfe — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:44:20 GMT

Awsome, yet another great deal from Ed!

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edunhill — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:20:37 GMT

Hey guys,

Thanks for your feedback!

Neil; I will feedback about Project, I know we're working to add more software titles to the DreamSpark offering.

Andy/Thomas; If your university isn't specifically mentioned in the list then you should still be able to authenticate by either using Athens or ISIC (both listed in the drop down). However if your university does not provide an Athens ID or you don't have an ISIC card then please use the support link in the above post to contact the DreamSpark techies so they can find a workaround for you and start the ball rolling on integrating your universities authentication mechanism.

As I'm sure you can imagine it is very difficult to find a way to verify all UK students as there are a huge number of different mechanisms used to autheticate students at different institutions. It is something we're working on but if you can't authenticate with any of the provided methods we will do our best to find a workaround to get the software into your hands.

I hope this helps.

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Dominic Green — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:38:42 GMT

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anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:49:26 GMT

So does the Expression suite cover Expression Encoder as well that's a separate download?

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edunhill — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:28:27 GMT

Expression Suite includes the tools used by designers and developers to build content (Web/Blend/Design/Media). Expression Encoder is a seperate server technology. DreamSpark only includes the Suite tools but I will feedback on your interest in Encoder.

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Andy Paton — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:26:08 GMT

Hi Ed,

Tried logging onto the Dreamspark Site using Athens and get this message:

Your home organisation has not registered to use the Athens to Shibboleth gateway. Please contact the service provider or home organisation for assistance.

Also cant use the NUS number since our Uni disaffiliated from NUS last year.

Rgds,

Andy

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edunhill — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:51:32 GMT

Hi Andy,

Please contact DreamSpark support (https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/FAQ/Students.aspx#contact) with this issue, they should be able to provide you with next steps to get this working.

Let me know if you don't have any joy.

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Sandeep — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:22:39 GMT

Hi Ed,

I am studying in london Metropolitan University. My university is not in the organizations list. So I tried to use athens as suggested by you. I have logged into the dreamspark and in the next step of verification, i havenot seen Athens in the dropdown menu. Please tell me where is Athens listed. or if it is listed with other name please let me know...

regards,

sandeep.

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edunhill — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:39:53 GMT

Hi Sandeep,

Athens is listed as "Eduserv Athens". If you take a look at the screengrab here: http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/edunhill/WindowsLiveWriter/DreamSparkVerificationUpdate_8E91/image_2.png you should be able to see what I mean.

Any problems let me know.

Students to be able to develop apps for SkyMarket for free!

Ed Dunhill's Blog — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:21:24 GMT

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