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03.16.07
Microsoft Teaching Web Development For Free
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David A. Utter
The company's Express editions of products like Visual Studio have been available for several months.
Handing powerful tools to novice developers without a training option left them dependent on other resources to learn how to use them.
It has to be noted Microsoft has a heavy self-interest in training people to do web or Windows development with its Beginner Developer Learning Center.
The tools that someone learns today will be the ones they probably stick with for years.
Microsoft provides a four-step process to getting started Visual Studio Express.
Developers select an interest, web or Windows, and assess their
skill level and Lesson Tiers.
They can then download and install the relevant free Express edition they need, and follow a Learning Path of lessons.
From there, the student's effort and ability takes him forward for the learning experience.
Jason Lee Miller might call this another example of the Google-ization of the Internet.
That might be partially correct, in terms of making a service available online.
Microsoft requires a software installation of an Express product on a machine, one that has a licensed copy of Windows purring away on its hard drive.
The training comes from an online resource, and that speaks
to Microsoft's view of a hybrid online/offline world of resources
It's more likely that Microsoft's training aims for an audience that might be seduced by the LAMP stack of Linux/Apache/MySQL/Perl or PHP or Python, as well as potential Ruby on Rails or Java developers.
Microsoft is making a gamble that free training today will equal commercial licensing sales of Visual Studio, SQL Server, and Windows tomorrow.
On the web development side, Microsoft offers a lot of information for the learner.
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About
the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.
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