Interesting post that I missed on 19th. Microsoft are offering students free software as part of DreamSpark.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ukhe/archive/2008/02/19/dreamspark-free-software-for-your-students.aspx
Whats more interesting to me is they have adopted Shibboleth as the security mechanism?
Now I wonder how many installations will work following the availabilty of some real content?
Andrew
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