Microsoft Software Donation Program

microsf121 Says:

Apr 21, 2012 - Go to journeyed

EAM100EAM Says:

Mar 31, 2012 - I like This Video.. how can I create same video? Which programs allow me to do that? 

Rafael99Maxim Says:

Dec 30, 2011 - what program you use to make this cool videos? Thx ;)

LukeCollatz Says:

Dec 1, 2011 - lol, i'm glad I switched away from microsoft, they are expensive and you can do anything with linux :D donating software??????? it doesn't cost them much to put software they already have onto a disc. and if you really wanted office, i'd go with "openoffice(dot)org" if you can't do something (computer-related) on one linux, you will be able to on another.

dissforlife Says:

Nov 17, 2011 - @NathanGNU If someone copyrights a software or recipe, someone else is allowed to figure out a way to achieve a similar goal. In other words, proprietary software licenses do not prevent the creation of software or software concepts, they only mean you can't take a specific application that is licensed under a proprietary license and share that without paying. Someone else can still make an open source clone of that software though.

dissforlife Says:

Nov 16, 2011 - @NathanGNU What do you consider a user-respecting license, and what makes a license unethical and disrespectful to it's users?

dissforlife Says:

Nov 14, 2011 - @NathanGNU Proprietary software isn't "unethical". There are many ways to abuse proprietary software and the concepts that come with it, but there isn't anything unethical about closed source, proprietary software.

sacameumbico Says:

Oct 27, 2011 - Microsoft donates not money... but software... ok Thats something that every business can get for free... its called Linux ;)

nicknet18 Says:

Oct 22, 2011 - @NathanGNU You're confusing man! Here you say GNU gives you freedom, and there you say that you don't support Apple selling it's modified BSD? MS is a corporation, what do you expect?

nicknet18 Says:

Oct 19, 2011 - @NathanGNU Stop yapping about waht you don't know. I've been using these software for years now. They aren't "gratis!" And I meant how Apple's OS kernel is taken from Free-BSD. They've written a glamorus shell on it and are selling it for high price. What do you have to say about that? That topic is more relevent to GNU software. MS is no way concerned with anything GNU.

Manu404 Says:

Oct 19, 2011 - This ad is really cool, love the metro style ads :D

Manu404 Says:

Oct 19, 2011 - Perhaps but pleaze, next time you try to do a dev' joke... do it correctly (affectation instead of comparaison, the ", ...)

nicknet18 Says:

Oct 17, 2011 - @NathanGNU I dunno where you got that info, but I'm a student at an engineering college affiliated to MS, and I get OS, IDEs for free of charge not "gratis." And the thing about GNU is that no one person worked his arse-off for it, it's a pool of bits of software from many hobbyist programmers. No wonder they give it out for free. MS employes people and pays them. It's that simple. Keep proprietary and GNU software apart, they run on different principles. Why don't you take on Apple for BSD?

mrHacker160 Says:

Oct 12, 2011 - ITS OUT HELL YEAH

nicknet18 Says:

Oct 3, 2011 - You're not getting my point. How many "common" people use Linux? Some people use Linux because it's never been a victim of hacking, to keep their data safe without any worries. MS's software runs in cooperates and banks and naturally has been a victim to malware and hacking. But now it's a thing of the past, with Windows 7 Pro. And it's natural that MS donates their own software, besides, there is'nt a more advanced IDE as Visual Studio 2010, is there?

Microsoftsucksl32007 Says:

Oct 2, 2011 - And Linux is free because people charge for support / code what they need or want.

Microsoftsucksl32007 Says:

Oct 2, 2011 - Oh yes, by helping you mean helping their profits. "giving away" air in order to get the students used to M$ Software so microsoft makes $500 every 4-5 years off them. Also, Linux Runs Maya, a PROFESSIONAL 3D rendering suite. Linux Powered the computers that render the movies that Dreamworks make. Linux Powers NASA's timers, clocks and other MIssion Critical systems. (their badge printer runs Windows Server 2003 :D) Linux It self is Quality Software, saying otherwise is arrogance.

nicknet18 Says:

Oct 2, 2011 - Oh, and MS helps the student community by giving many of their software for free. Did you know that?

nicknet18 Says:

Oct 2, 2011 - Have you ever written a piece of "quality" software? Well, if you have, you'd know the pain. Don't compare Windows and Linux, they completely different class. Linux is free; only problem is I don't see it in any (non)commercial establishment or used by a common man. Nor does Linux run any professional software.

SimonTheGoalie1 Says:

Sep 27, 2011 - thanks pirate bay, for doing what microsoft didn't :)

hugacho70 Says:

Sep 21, 2011 - linux is free, not windows.

hugacho70 Says:

Sep 21, 2011 - done

erfanullahjan Says:

Sep 18, 2011 - I am also using windows for non profit

Microsoftsucksl32007 Says:

Aug 27, 2011 - "Microsoft helps millions of people by donating software to nonprofits around the world, now reaching more than 40,000 organizations each year." Linux gives away software to over 100 Million people a year. Linux > Windows

aphroditepandora Says:

Aug 27, 2011 - All you idiots saying "software costs nothing to produce" - yes, it does. They have to buy the comps for their devs, pay their developers to develop the software, pay the production companies to manufacture the software and pay shipping companies to deliver it. So yes, these donations DO cost them money. Do you people even understand how the world works? Yes, obviously MS gets advertising and tax breaks out of this, but don't knock their efforts when u urself are probably doing nothing to help!