Microsoft is Jump Starting the student developer with an offering of FREE developer tools. Just for being a student, you get professional-level developer and design tools as a download, at no-charge and with no strings attached. The DreamSpark offering of software compliments MSDNAA program and MSDN AA program continues in its current form. There has been a significant drop in Computer Science and engineering student enrollments in the US universities. A big part of this drop is the perception that

Last week I was hanging out in Texas doing some training on Silverlight/Evangelism training. I was staying in Irving - a huge tech center - more or less just like any other suburban tech city (Redmond/San Jose/Reston). But at some point, I had a sudden need for a new firewire cable, so I ran down to the local Frys in Dallas (1.5 hours away). I drove over and here's what I saw: WTF Texas....WTF... Also while in Texas I made a visit to Allen High School with a collegue - Alfred Thompson . We saw highschoolers