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Microsoft, in another magnanimous act, is offering SEVERAL professional editions of its most popular developer software to students for free.

No, seriously.

No, I am not talking about the Visual Studio Express Editions.

If you have any further doubts just visit the Microsoft DreamSpark site. I think it is fairly pointless to repeat a bunch of information (a blogging about another blogging or article), so I will stick a few points in for brevity (a micro-blogging).

So:

1. Sign in.
2. Verify you are a student.
3. Download.

Then enjoy:

1. Expression Studio
2. Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition
3. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition
4. Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
5. SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition
6. XNA Game Studio 2.0
7. XNA Creators Club Online

Darn!  What if my university or student organization is not listed?  Well, if you have any kind of partnership with JourneyEd through whatever school you are enrolled in, just follow JourneyEd’s student verification process.  You will:

1. Visit JourneyEd through your alliance link.
2. Add “MS DreamSpark” to your cart.
3. Checkout.
4. Verify you are a student which is simple.

   If you came from your school homepage JourneyEd will detect that.
   If not, it will ask you to login to your school homepage and come back.

5. Checkout.
6. Wait for your link to the DreamSpark site.  Which by the way, didn’t come until my 2nd call to JourneyEd asking where my e-mail was.  My Comcast e-mail didn’t work.  Nor did our EDU addresses.  *shrug*

And that is about it.  You will be verified and sent straight to the DreamSpark site.

OK, maybe that was not as brief as I previously thought.

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