Dreamspark Reality Log
Category:Education
Category:Microsoft
Dreamspark is a Microsoft program designed to entice students into using proprietary Microsoft software and development platforms. The software (which includes "top-of-the-line" versions of Windows Server and Visual Studio) is available at no charge (with increased restrictions) to students with eligible educational credentials. Another such program is the MSDN Academic Alliance or MSDNAA. Unlike Dreamspark, MSDNAA requires educational institutions to pay annual fees in order to participate. The following index of articles deals with the issues and repercussions surrounding these and other such programs:
Poor Microsoft Gives Poor Software to Youngsters, Hoping to Remain Relevant
Bill Gates Bashes GNU/Linux and Out Comes His Fear
Microsoft’s Anti-Linux Dumping Crusade: Chapter 11.1
Microsoft Tries to Fight Libre with Gratis
An Open, Gentler Microsoft: The Best Illusion Only Novell Can Buy
Microsoft’s B.A.D. (Bribing, Addicting, Dumping) Comes to the Philippines
Down with Microsoft… in India (Updated)
The EDGIfication of the Philippines
India Moves to Free Software, So Microsoft Fights Back with Gentle Bribes and Partners
Microsoft’s Live@Edu Scam Finally Leaked
Microsoft Buys Market Share, But Still Loses Due to Technical Problems
Microsoft Takes Dumping Tactics up a Notch
Microsoft Fires Up Proxy War Against Yahoo as Debt Looms Over
Is Microsoft Paying Russia to Take Schools off GNU/Linux and Halt Antitrust Action?
Microsoft Attacks GNU/Linux (Pardus) in Turkey, Dumps on Students
Microsoft Tries to Associate Itself with Open Source in Order to Spread Lock-in, Dump Proprietary Software on Clients
What Bill Gates Did in India: Business as Usual
Microsoft Hijacks Maharashtra’s Education, to Teach Many Children How to Smoke Windows
IEEE Turns Young People Into Microsoft Customers
Narendra Sisodiya Takes on AICTE for Support of Foreign Software Monopolies
Back Room Deals as Microsoft’s Secret Recipe
Microsoft Loses All Credibility in E-mail
See also Bizspark.
Dreamspark is a Microsoft program designed to entice students into using proprietary Microsoft software and development platforms. The software (which includes "top-of-the-line" versions of Windows Server and Visual Studio) is available at no charge (with increased restrictions) to students with eligible educational credentials. Another such program is the MSDN Academic Alliance or MSDNAA. Unlike Dreamspark, MSDNAA requires educational institutions to pay annual fees in order to participate. The following index of articles deals with the issues and repercussions surrounding these and other such programs:See also Bizspark.