Catch them young. Bill Gates is in India and among other initiatives, he launched the DreamSpark program for all technical students in India.
Software Titles available free of charge to College Students
The software suite includes Windows Server, Microsoft Visual Studio, Expression Studio, Virtual PC and more. You could simply walk into any NIIT or Aptech training institute and show your college identity card to get free DVDs.
Both undergraduates and graduate students are eligible to receive free software from Microsoft.
Alternatively, if you have a high bandwidth connection, you may download the software online from dreamsparkindia.com.
Microsoft DreamSpark will be expanded to include high school students by early 2009.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/india/free-microsoft-software-dvd-for-college-students/5226/
Reader Comments
won’t they give office 2007 free :) :)
Written by Bruno on 11.05.08
Not useful at all in India as college students in India hardly get a login id by universities to verify themselves. Only a few will be having ISIC membership. What would be the use of DVDs when you won’t be able to get keys for them unless you are able to verify yourself.
Written by Apinder on 11.05.08
Great initiative my Microsoft. Although pirates copies of most of these software’s are available in market but its always a great feeling to work on legitimate copies.
I am sure small companies will misuse by using it for commercial purposes.
Written by Reliance Insider on 11.05.08
What the hell is this. Have you seen the website. Goto the register page and have a look at the city names there. I really wonder if somebody from Microsoft have designed the site or it has been designed by a Student who received the first set of this tools.
You can see the picture at link .
And if somebody from MS designed that site, he/she ought to get fired.
Written by Gtrends on 11.05.08
@Apinder 1 doesn’t need to be an ISIC member to avail the offer. All you need to do is take your college id to NITT/APtech and you can get your pack of goodies.
@Bruno, no. Offie 2007 for students comes at a discounted price.
Written by Manan on 11.05.08
Manan, you need it if you want to download it online to get the activation key. I think we had enough discussion at digit forum :) .
Written by Apinder on 11.05.08
good initiative by microsoft, but i would prefer people use opensource. Opensource is good for india.
Written by srinivas on 11.06.08
Does india have the money to sustain open source development.
Written by Gtrends on 11.07.08
Contacted 2 NIIT centres in Delhi(One is there in the list of centres where disks are supposed to be available as per Dreamspark India website), but they seemed totally unaware about that.
Written by Apinder on 11.08.08
Good think to hear…
Think about licensed softwares in pirated OS
If they provide Windows OS in the same way then its better..
Written by aravinthan on 11.11.08