{"id":40,"date":"2009-10-01T12:38:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T12:38:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-01T12:38:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T12:38:24","slug":"full_range_of_microsoft_offers_for_uk_st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Full range of Microsoft offers for UK students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/blogs\/index.php\/wit\/2009\/09\/18\/great_windows_7_offer_for_uk_students\">I posted previously<\/a>, the special offer for students to purchanse Windows 7 upgrades for just \u00c2\u00a330 starts today. But that&#8217;s not the only offer that Microsoft has on the table for students&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ultimatesteal.co.uk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/student\/discounts\/theultimatesteal-uk\/images\/logo_topleft.gif\" alt=\"The Ultimate Steal\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Ultimate Steal offer is back, which lets you buy Office 2007 Ultimate for \u00c2\u00a339.50. You get both of those offers by visiting http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/uk\/education\/studentoffer\/<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dreamspark.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net\/d1\/Dev\/App_Themes\/Channel8\/images\/DreamSparkBanner.png\" alt=\"DreamSpark\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in software\/web development or design, <a href=\"http:\/\/dreamspark.com\">DreamSpark<\/a> gives access to a whole range of products <em>free of charge<\/em>. You can get:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2<\/li>\n<li>Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 Professional editions, and XNA Game Studio 3.1<\/li>\n<li>SQL Server 2008 Developer or SQL Server Express<\/li>\n<li>Expression Studio 3<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those offers are all available to all students with a .ac.uk email address, but certain students may be able to get even more software for free via <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/academic\/default.aspx\">MSDN Academic Alliance<\/a>. If you are eligible for that, your school or academic department should be able to provide details.<\/p>\n<p>Students interested in coding and other general geekiness should also check out <a href=\"http:\/\/channel8.msdn.com\">Channel 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/channel8.msdn.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wit.ncl.ac.uk\/blog_files\/jonathan\/channel8.jpg\" alt=\"channel8.msdn.com\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I posted previously, the special offer for students to purchanse Windows 7 upgrades for just \u00c2\u00a330 starts today. But that&#8217;s not the only offer that Microsoft has on the table for students&#8230; The Ultimate Steal offer is back, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/?p=40\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-windows7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}