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Microsoft frees Visual Studio 2005 Express

Martin LaMonica CNET News

Published: 21 Apr 2006 15:55 BST

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Microsoft has decided to continue indefinitely a free development tool offer it launched last year to better attract non-professional coders to Microsoft's software.

The company on Wednesday said Visual Studio 2005 Express will be free permanently. When it was released for the first time, last November, Microsoft had said it would be free for a year.

You can read the rest of this story on Builder UK, ZDNet UK's site for developers.

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