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Geek Culture / Legal free copies of all Microsoft software?

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Fallout
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Well, not for you obviously, but my uni has just joined the Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance Program. In english, this means as part of one of the courses supported by this program, I can get any Microsoft software absolutely free, forever, so long as its for non-profit use.

Now, I know someone is gonna burst my bubble and tell me they get that too, or even get more, but I'm still thinking its pretty sweet. Time to swap XP Home for XP Pro, or maybe even a more stable 2000 or something. What else should I be asking for??

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Ian T
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Posted: 30th Oct 2003 03:41
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Who makes the decisions?

By the way, all their games are software, and are used for non-proft... so get Age of Mythology, The Titans, and Freelancer while you're at it

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Mattman
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Posted: 30th Oct 2003 03:45
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don't forget AOE

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HZence
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Posted: 30th Oct 2003 04:03
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Make that AOE II which is 100000000e10 times better than AOE

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Mattman
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well, just get 'em all

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David T
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Posted: 30th Oct 2003 11:20
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Make that AOE II which is 100000000e10 times better than AOE

Make that AOM which is also 100000000e10 times better than AOE II

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Joeyjoejoe Shabadoo
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Or just get AOE off a cerial box...mmmm nutra grain.

*wonders if there still doing that since he has been in Japan for 10 months*

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AlecM
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Posted: 30th Oct 2003 12:48
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AOE has subscription fees, I doubt they pay those for you. Just get XP pro. As far as office software goes i just use open office.

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Preston C
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Get Microsoft Visual Studio .net and give a copy to everyone. You didnt make any money off of the deal, right? Then its still within range of the deal you made


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David T
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Posted: 30th Oct 2003 13:05
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Quote: "AOE has subscription fees, I doubt they pay those for you"


I does?!?

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 30th Oct 2003 13:22
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you still have to pay for the delivery of the CDs, you know that right?
$10 each software package...

still a pretty good price for Windows XP Professional though.
i'd ask for a copy of Visual Developer .Net Achitect, those bad boys set you back $2,400 (not a cheap peice of software lol)

besides i thought you only got the software free when you sign upto the online course to get your qualifications in it?
so like if you took an online Windows Management course you'd get the windows you want to learn and access to the lessons.

though i've never taken them outside of college so I don't know


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David T
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Posted: 30th Oct 2003 18:32
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I remember the old MS student licensing, you could get Visual Studio 6.0 pro for £60 and office 2000 pro for about £40 IIRC.

Then they stopped that and just gave out offixe XP

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Ian T
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'Make that AOM which is also 100000000e10 times better than AOE II'

I disagree... it's a different series, the developers said so, it's not meant to be AOE 3. Which is good because it's a less intelligent (if just as enjoyable) strategy game.

And no, the AOE games do not have subsription fees

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Fallout
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No no no. We get a unique indentifier and password and access to a download site, or access to CDs via out University contact, so we pay nothing.

Looks like this new service is designed to get all the future professionals in the industry proficient in all Microsoft software. The end result is obviously university graduates who are experienced with microsoft software, encouraging all businesses employing them to buy Microsoft software. That's what they get out of it.

Of course, that does mean games are excluded from the deal. As is FrontPage, for some reason. But who wants front page?

So XP Pro is on the list and I'll look into that visual Studio and Developer tools. Nice.

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 31st Oct 2003 05:44
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Frontpage is part of Office Pro, so that might be why its excluded


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David T
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Posted: 31st Oct 2003 16:48
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I was going to get office 2003 on student license, but it's incedibly limited (word, excel, powerpoint and one more I think)



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Yian
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Posted: 31st Oct 2003 17:13
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Could you day which unis do this?

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WOLFY
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Posted: 31st Oct 2003 23:17 Edited at: 31st Oct 2003 23:18
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My best friend works at Ensemble Studios who make the AOE/AOM games. He gets me awesome dicounts on all Microsoft software.

You should see their office. They have their own stadium seating movie theatre....

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Mattman
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Posted: 1st Nov 2003 04:34
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kewl

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Fallout
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Don't know which unis do it. My contract is dated March 2003, so it's still a fairly new system they've got going and our uni has only just signed up. The uni is gonna have to have a decent DEC (Design Engineering and Computing) department to qualify, but I'm sure it'll be a fairly wide spread thing.

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