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Mahoney
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Posted: 14th Oct 2008 20:36 Edited at: 14th Oct 2008 21:47
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Here's the main page: https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/Default.aspx

The jist of it is this: verified students get some awesome free stuff (such as Visual Studio 2008 (or 2005) Professional Edition). My school is not on the list of partners. This is normal, as most high-schools aren't on the list. About four months ago, when I was looking into this, I sent an e-mail to an administrator at my school requesting that he look into adding themselves to the list of partners. I didn't get a reply, and we're still not on the list.

But, there is an alternate method of approval: JourneyEd, which I tried back four months ago. It said you have to send in an ID of some sort, which I forgot to do, and haven't thought about since.

Just a few minutes ago, I went to try and verify myself again. I searched my inbox for the original e-mail from four months ago to see what I had to do. I then noticed another e-mail from JourneyEd, confirming my verification. It had a link to activate my verification with my Windows Live account. I clicked it, and it let me start downloading Visual Studio 2008 Professional!

It didn't give me a license key, though. I thought "Maybe this is just a trial?" But no: I read the FAQ on the page. It said that, if ANY of the downloads from the site don't give you a license key, then either they don't require one, or it's built into the installer.

So, I guess I'm asking, what the hell just happened?

NOTE: Not complaining. I'm getting VS2008 Pro.

NOTE 2: Please don't be the guy that says "That's illegal." It's not. This is a valid download for any students, college or high school.


EDIT: I was wrong about the product key: one is required. But, it gladly gave it to me.

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Jeku
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Posted: 14th Oct 2008 22:22
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Cool, although the Express versions are free and you can make a commercial game with it.


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David R
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Posted: 14th Oct 2008 22:37
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Shame it fails to clarify that it means University students, not just any students


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Posted: 14th Oct 2008 22:42
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Quote: "Shame it fails to clarify that it means University students, not just any students
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That's where it's strange, I got accepted to this even though I didn't enter a real school! So I'm not really sure what they're trying to do with this. :S
But hey, if it works out alright I can get stuff for free.


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Posted: 14th Oct 2008 22:52
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Quote: "Shame it fails to clarify that it means University students, not just any students"


It's for high school, too.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/142597/microsoft_gives_software_to_nurture_future_coders.html

Quote: "Cool, although the Express versions are free and you can make a commercial game with it."


Yeah, I know. I'm not sure if I'll actually install the full version. Anyone know if it does any good above the Express version?

Also, the real point of posting this was to ask: how did I get approved? Should I actually install this?

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David R
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Posted: 14th Oct 2008 23:03
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Quote: "It's for high school, too."


Their options for Secondary schools in the UK is not though, they suggest Athen IDs and other methods to verify for the UK (all of which are only relevant to universities)


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Posted: 14th Oct 2008 23:03
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^I guess US high schools only. :/

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I use 2008 pro for school. I like it. The main difference is that it has all the languages built in to one application and you can download plugins (Don't think you can for express editions... but I could be wrong). There's also an icon editor and some other tools that come with it as well.


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Posted: 15th Oct 2008 02:12 Edited at: 15th Oct 2008 02:52
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Quote: "you can download plugins (Don't think you can for express editions... but I could be wrong)."


You can't. Always hated that.

Well, I've decided to use it. Let's see if they really gave me a valid key.

EDIT:

Holy crap. Resource editor = GOD.

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Posted: 15th Oct 2008 03:38
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When I read the title I thought Microsoft was making another game console. But still, cool.

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Sorry for bumping this from the dead but I just had to say that now I got my mail back from Dreamspark, first they sent one mail explaining that I didn't enter proper college information and didn't enter and then two others confirming that I was one and a link to the download page. I'm not even in college! :/ Microsoft seems to have done something wrong. Or whoever handles this.


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Quote: "Sorry for bumping this from the dead but I just had to say that now I got my mail back from Dreamspark, first they sent one mail explaining that I didn't enter proper college information and didn't enter and then two others confirming that I was one and a link to the download page. I'm not even in college! :/ Microsoft seems to have done something wrong. Or whoever handles this."


Yep. I got two emails saying that I wasn't approved, too.

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Quote: "Yep. I got two emails saying that I wasn't approved, too.
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This just seems ridiculous, I mean, those softwares that are available for download are quite expensive aren't they? Microsoft must be loosing a lot of money if people are exploiting this.


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