Windows 7 Enterprise FREE Trial
It’s been a while for my last post. I was busy moving to another country – will explain this in another post.
Microsoft has announced the download availability of Windows 7 Enterprise for trial inside your environment.
The Windows 7 Enterprise trial is designed specifically for IT Professionals, so that you can test your software and hardware on a final version of the product. In addition, it provides the opportunity for you to become more familiar with the key improvements over previous versions of the Windows operating system, and experience firsthand how Windows 7 can make your PC environment more productive, secure, and manageable.
There is a time limit for downloading this version so better hurry. Access this site. However, if you are a MS Partner or Technet/MSDN subscriber you should check your software subscription page because you can access the non-trial version.
Free C# book
RedGate is offering for free download the ebook “Illustrated C# 2008″.
This book is interesting for beginners because it has a lot of drawings and diagrams that explain better the concepts described by text. It could be used by persons migrating from C++ or VB to C# or it could even be the support material for a course.
In 730 pages the author, Daniel Solis offers a very visual approach – with lots of figures, diagrams and code samples – that will help you get to work with C# fast.
Go here to download your copy.
DreamSpark – Free Software and MCTS Certifications
DreamSpark is a program set up by Microsoft to provide students with software design and development tools at no charge. The program was originally available for university/college students in Belgium, China, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S. but has now been expanded to more than 80 countries and is offered to many high school students. To register, students must visit the Dreamspark Website and verify their identity.
Without any charge through DreamSpark students can get the following software products (full versions!):
- CCR DSS Toolkit 2008
- Expression Studio 2
- Robotics Developer Studio 2008
- SQL Server 2008 Express
- SQL Server 2008 Developer
- VirtualPC 2007
- Visual Studio 2005 Professional
- Visual Studio 2008 Express
- Visual Studio 2008 Professional
- Visual Studio 2008 Standard
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Server 2008 Standard
- XNA Game Studio 3.0
Also you get an IT Academy Student pass which provides free e-learning courses to students who are interested in extending their technical skills with Microsoft technologies.
The facts above are not really new. What is new is the fact that through DreamSpark students can get a MCTS Certification voucher. With this voucher they are provided with a free certification exam. Without the voucher the exam costs $50 which might be an important sum for a student.
One of the following exams ca be taken with this voucher: