Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Thu Sep 20 11:45:58 CDT 2012
Yes, Dreamspark Microsoft program works for students here too: http://www.dreamspark.ru/access.aspx and it gives also free access to Pluralsight online courses - I have recently got paid subscription for that courses and I like them a lot. And MS Office 2010 for students costs about USD100 here. Thank you. -- Shamil Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:27:22 -0700 от Doug Steele <dbdoug at gmail.com>: > > > > >Microsoft has a program called Dreamspark which gives free versions of > software including Visual Studio, Expression Studio, Windows and Sql Server > to anyone with a university email address. My daughter in law used it last > year. I just checked and it appears to be current. > > Doug > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > > > Hi Shamil: > > > > Right now, the best IDE for C# is Microsoft's offering. > > > > The prices are pretty high; from 1K for entrance level package and up to 5K > > for the full-blown enterprise version. The packages may be well worth it > > but > > when getting any of them you are truly committed. If MS decides not to > > allow > > their package results to be compatible with the rest of the industry then a > > developer may find themselves on a dead-end street or/and rebuilding the > > resultant forms by hand and you are back to square one wondering why you > > have been buying all these upgrades every year. > > > > An aside from my personal observations: The current problem with the > > industry, as far as Microsoft is related, is that for every young student > > graduating from university with degrees in computer science maybe only one > > in thirty (50, more?...) is equiped to work with MS products. Young geeks > > have no money, so they learn programming and development on cheap and free > > products and that continues right through university as universities have > > no > > money either. The best students come out knowing how to program in C, PHP, > > Java, Ruby, Python, databases like MySQL, Postgress and Cassandra, on > > platforms like Linux and Unix and knowledge of only how to build web > > applications... > > > > Microsoft has stopped giving free introduction, training programs and > > access > > to their beta application at the universities. This is a problem for > > Microsoft if they want to be anything more than just sellers of their > > office > > products and the trainer of integrators, they are going to have to, again, > > be a lot more pro-active...just look at their competition. > > > > Jim ><<< skipped >>>