https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/

Got send a note about this, and I thought it would be pretty cool to spread to tdub. I think this is especially cool because unlike MSDNAA, this is open to ANY registered university (and maybe even high school) students worldwide.

You can get Visual Studio 2008 Pro, Expressions Studio, Windows Server 2003 Standard and XNA Game Studio 2, Virtual PC, and SQL Server 2005 Developer

Pretty cool initiative to get students into these otherwise pretty expensive tools, and to promote self-initiated commercial products. Basically you can develop whatever you want with these, and if you start selling your creations, you can just buy a license and keep on trucking (no upgrades, retrofits, reinstalls required AFAIK).

3/11/2008 5:37:46 PM

Yea that's a smart way for them to get new developers.

3/11/2008 5:50:03 PM

BG's just trying to compete against open-source

3/11/2008 5:51:59 PM

My girlfriend will be downloading vs2k8

3/11/2008 5:58:51 PM

and just a reminder to all non-students, all of the Express SKU's of Visual Studio are free to anyone with the same commercial restrictions (sell your creation, buy a license). and AFAIK there's not a whole lot of difference between the Pro and Express SKU's for individual developers.

3/11/2008 6:10:11 PM