Showing posts with label DreamSpark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DreamSpark. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Free Microsoft Exams

Microsoft is offering students free certification exams in any test that is for a technology specialist exam! This offer is available till the 30th June 2009, and is being offered as part of the Dreamspark program.

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Anyone that is even semi interested in taking an exam I encourage you to sign-up before June 30th. If there are any problems with the offer leave a comment.

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The new Dreamspark

Several days ago Dreamspark was updated in include a new design\interface and also there is new software and goodies for students on the site. The first thing that you can notice is that there is more software to download now.

  1. The latest full version for visual studio
  2. The new SQL server
  3. XNA 3.0
  4. Windows server 2008

and much more.

The biggest change is that there are now free vouchers for MCTS certifications, these will let students get Microsoft certification for free. These free tests are available for specialist exams.

If anyone has any issues redeeming any of the software or any other offers leave a comment.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

DreamSpark 2.0

A couple of weeks ago Microsoft released a new version of DreamSpark. For those of you who don’t know what DreamSpark is, it is a ‘product’ from Microsoft that gives students a selection of free software. This is a parallel product to MSDNAA, and lets students download the software on the internet and not be dependent on their schools to actually buy MSDNAA, however it does offer less software, but still enables students to get nearly all the software that they need for development with visual studio.

DreamSpark now offers the follow

  • Visual Studio
  • SQL Server
  • Windows Server
  • XNA
  • Expression

The only catch at this point is you need to validate that you are a student, to do this you either need to go to a university on a list that is provided or have a ISIC student. At this point if you are a UNSW student you will need to have an ISIC card to access this service, they can be purchased from STA travel on campus or many other places.

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