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Microsoft launches Website Spark, hopes web devs will take candy from strangers
Last year Microsoft debuted Dreamspark, which gives university students access to truckloads of development software at no charge. In April of this year, the program was extended to include high school students.
Now, they're spinning off WebsiteSpark, a variant aimed at small businesses that want to make a splash in the web design and development world. If you employ fewer than 10 people and want in, here's what you can get - without paying a penny up front:
You've also got to roll out a new app or web site within six months of joining. If you hit it big and get bought out or go public, the WebSpark free ride is over. Though you likely wouldn't care, since you'd be swimming around in a Scrooge McDuck-sized pile of loot.
Now, they're spinning off WebsiteSpark, a variant aimed at small businesses that want to make a splash in the web design and development world. If you employ fewer than 10 people and want in, here's what you can get - without paying a penny up front:
- 3 Visual Studio 2008 licenses
- 1 Expression Studio 2 or 3 license
- 2 Expression Web 2 or 3 licenses
- 3 users licenses for Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008
- 4 processor licenses for Web Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 for self-hosting
You've also got to roll out a new app or web site within six months of joining. If you hit it big and get bought out or go public, the WebSpark free ride is over. Though you likely wouldn't care, since you'd be swimming around in a Scrooge McDuck-sized pile of loot.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
dasklney said 12:03PM on 9-24-2009
It's free, hell yeah, but then can terminate your application anytime without any reasons.
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Butters said 12:55PM on 9-24-2009
Read the terms and conditions for most free applications or software and you will find the same ability to lose access at any time. I don't see why you are concerned about this.
Saint Seminole said 4:11PM on 9-24-2009
"It's free, hell yeah, but then"
No, it's not free. Near the end of the article, the author makes it clear that it costs $100 to *exit* the program. Just to join, you agree that you'll pay that fee.
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Ashish said 6:02PM on 9-24-2009
If one tries to get a few of these from any hosting provider, it would easily be 50-100$ a month.
For someone who needs some of these, its a great great deal.
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Olivia Parkar said 10:52AM on 9-25-2009
NaviSite is happy to be a Microsoft WebsiteSpark Hosting Partner and is looking forward to hosting the great Websites and Web applications that WebsiteSpark members create. Eligible Web professionals can get nominated for WebsiteSpark through Network Partners or visiting NaviSite's WebsiteSpark page dedicatedhosting.navisite.com/specials/websitespark or Microsoft’s Website.
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