Microsoft gives students free access to complex tools
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft is giving students free access to its most sophisticated tools for writing software and making media-rich Web sites, a move that intensifies its competition with Adobe Systems Inc. and could challenge open-source software's popularity.
The Redmond-based software maker said late Monday that it will let students download Visual Studio Professional Edition, a software development environment; Expression Studio, which includes graphic design and Web site and hybrid Web-desktop programming tools; and XNA Game Studio 2.0, a video game development program.