{"id":10911,"date":"2008-11-06T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2008\/11\/06\/microsoft-development-software-for-the-little-guy\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T00:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:22:25","slug":"microsoft-development-software-for-the-little-guy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/microsoft-development-software-for-the-little-guy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Development Software for the &#034;little guy&#034;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something came across my desk today that really peaked my interest.&nbsp; There was a discussion about how expensive software can be for individuals, startups, etc.&nbsp; Someone forwarded a link to a new program that Microsoft is launching for startups that enables people to get a small startup going with just about all the software they need and little to no initial cost.&nbsp; I was looking over the program and saw that it had links to a variety of programs targeted at people in different situations (students, etc).&nbsp; It seemed like some great information worth sharing.\n<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoftstartupzone.com\/BizSpark\/Pages\/At_a_Glance.aspx\">BizSpark<\/a> &#8211; A program for new startups (particularly emphasizing service based startups) that provides just about everything you could want.\n<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.empowerforisv.com\/\">Empower for ISVs<\/a> &#8211; A program targeted at a broader ISV base that includes a bit less but still has a lot of what you would need.\n<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamspark.com\/default.aspx\">DreamSpark<\/a> &#8211; A program targeted at students to give them access to a variety of software that might otherwise be out of reach.\n<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoftstartupzone.com\/Software\/Pages\/Try_a_Product.aspx\">Free and Trial Software<\/a> &#8211; And last but not least is a nice index of free Microsoft Software that is available to anyone.\nMaybe one of these programs is right for you?<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something came across my desk today that really peaked my interest.&nbsp; There was a discussion about how expensive software can be for individuals, startups, etc.&nbsp; Someone forwarded a link to a new program that Microsoft is launching for startups that enables people to get a small startup going with just about all the software they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,4],"class_list":["post-10911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs","tag-visual-studio"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Something came across my desk today that really peaked my interest.&nbsp; There was a discussion about how expensive software can be for individuals, startups, etc.&nbsp; Someone forwarded a link to a new program that Microsoft is launching for startups that enables people to get a small startup going with just about all the software they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}