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Visual Studio Express Free for Life
I just read this on Tim Heur’s blog here. This is a pretty big move by Microsoft, in my opinion (as are all of my comments to follow). Microsoft has always been a money machine so releasing major products (SQL Server Express included) for free is big. Yes, they are “express” editions but still. When I decided to learn C# I had a free tool to download and work with. When I started reading up on Delphi…hrmmm…Borland wasn’t as nice which deterred my efforts. I won’t spend thousands on software just to learn a language. Notepad is out of the question unless it is do-or-die to learn it. Code completion saves tons of time debugging. ;-)
Bottom line…good stuff Microsoft!
Posted by John C. Bland II on April 24, 2006 10:29 AM | Permalink
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