Visual Studio Express Free for One Year
Microsoft is offering promotional discout on the "light version" of their new development product line, Visual Studio Express, for free for one year. Staring from today till 2006/11/07, anyone can download the whole package for free and use it "forever". The Visual Studio Express package includes
* Visual Web Developer 2005 Express
* Visual Basic 2005 Express
* Visual C# 2005 Express
* Visual C++ 2005 Express
* Visual J# 2005 Express
* SQL Server Express
Story behind this offer? I guess they guys are aware of the web developement market dominated by Apache httpd and tons of free development languages such as Perl, PHP and JAVA and trying to catch up.
This is NOT a beta version, again, NOT a beta. Full story is here.