Microsoft Giving Students Free Dev Tools: Visual Studio, XNA

Morshad published 20 Feb 2008, 10:43 in main - 208 views

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Microsoft will be giving college students in 10 countries free developer tools in an effort named DreamSpark, including the Microsoft Visual Studios, and many other programs. Among the other programs is the XNA studio, used to develop Xbox 360 games.

On top of the XNA studio for the Xbox 360 and Visual Studio, Microsoft is also giving students access to their Expression Web design tools.

Microsoft senior director of academic initiatives Joe Wilson stated “You can go build software applications. You can go build Web sites. You can do a really cool Facebook application. There are a lot of possibilities that comes with this small list of products.”

Microsoft is making a move to bring the program worldwide for college and high school students very soon. As of right now though it is available in 10 countries, including the U.S., UK, China, Germany, and France.

News source: dBTechno

Tags: Microsoft, Free Dev Tools, Visual Studio, XNA

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