Within the last few months, I’ve gone to various free educational seminars from Microsoft, received tons of educational material online (including their MCSD.NET certification books through the Last Developer Standing competition), free books and software. It looks like Microsoft is really pushing to get the knowledge of its .NET framework based products around.
I’m a Microsoft product kinda guy, so it’s great for me. The picture here shows the free products that I’ve received recently:
- Microsoft VS.NET backpack
- Introducing ASP.NET 2.0 book
- VS 2005 Beta 2, Team Studio, as well as SQL Server 2005 Beta
- Visual C# 2003 Standard edition (just got this in the mail today actually)
Add to this, the various free IDE’s around, the Express products all over the place, and the open source project Mono gaining grounds within the Linux community, and I think the .NET solution is really going to gain quite a bit of followers in the development world.
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