Microsoft To Give Away Development Tools -- Redmond Channel Partner

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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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