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Microsoft To Give Away Development Tools

To high school and college kids, that is. So, grow a bad teenage mustache, brush up on the parlance of today's youth (we think we heard some of it in the movie Juno, but we can't be sure), and see if you, too, can pass for a high school kid and score some free stuff. Or not.

Posted by Lee Pender on February 19, 2008


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