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Oh no, Microsoft has gone crazy?!

Gill Cleeren

.net | Programming | Software | Microsoft

July 26, 2006

Is it me, or is it like every day I have been announcing that Microsoft is giving yet some other software away for free?

Maybe it's the heat that's getting to them?

Anyway, a big thank you for all you not-MSDN subscribers to the big M, since they are giving away the complete MSDN library for free. You can download the May 2006 edition.

Prepare your computer however, since the download is quite large, up to 1.7 GB!

Go here for the download!

Thank you Microsoft... What?? Again no thank you... Tssss.... ;-)

Posted on: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 11:31:54 PM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00) | Comments [2]

Thursday, July 27, 2006 4:19:08 PM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

Just for the record, that's only the update and SDKs.. The actual MSDN repository weighs quite a bit more than 1.7 gigabytes (considering pretty much any MS application is included in there). You'll get quite a few nice goodies for that hefty download but no free beer.

hvb

Friday, July 28, 2006 9:03:28 AM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

I think you are confusing the MSDN library with an MSDN subscription here :-). The library is nothing but a large library, included with Visual Studio for example. That's what Microsoft is giving away for free now...

A package with almost every Microsft application is an MSDN subscription.

gill

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2/8/2012 9:17:48 PM

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