DreamSpark - Professional Dev Tools for Students. FREE!

<p>You may have seen this <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/feb08/02-18GSDPR.mspx" target="_blank">announced in February</a>; DreamSpark gets the full suite of Microsoft's Professional Developer tools like Visual Studio and Expression to students free of charge! Awesome. Studio is hands down the best IDE available today and probably the best piece of software Microsoft has ever released. Now students don't have to make difficult trade offs like beer money or IDE. If you're a student, <strong><a href="https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/Default.aspx" target="_blank">download yours today</a></strong>. <p>While you're at the Channel 8 site loading up on Free Dev tools, check out <a href="http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/New-Windows-Live-Maps-brings-unique-3-D-rendering-and-real-images-to-life/" target="_blank">Stefan Weitz's video tour</a> of Live Maps features including Collections, Tours and 3D Birds Eye navigation, then get started creating. <p><a href="http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/New-Windows-Live-Maps-brings-unique-3-D-rendering-and-real-images-to-life/" target="_blank">

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