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• Microsoft Visio 2007
• Microsoft Expression
• DreamSpark

Microsoft Visio 2007 lets you create business and technical diagrams that help you visualise complex systems, sharpen communication and transform your business processes. With Visio 2007, you'll spend less time designing, documenting and maintaining processes and systems – and more time planning for the future. Visio 2007 helps you visualise and communicate ideas and information. Students can document and share ideas visually and assemble diagrams by simply dragging task-specific shapes onto pages. It’s also easy to manage people, processes and projects.

Microsoft Visio in Education

Visio 2007 provides tools that help students create mind maps and technical drawings. It enables students, educators and staff members to organise and share their ideas quickly.

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If you think and design visually, Expression Studio is a perfect tool to enable you to create compelling, impactful and expressive designs for the desktop and the Web. The visually rich technologies in Silverlight and .NET offer amazing possibilities to bring your creative ideas to life using a range of design tools purpose-built for the task. Microsoft Expression delivers an effective, streamlined and powerful designer and developer workflow which helps deliver compelling and engaging Web sites, Web applications and desktop experiences.

Whether you're an expert or just getting started, building standards-based Web sites is fast and easy with Microsoft Expression Web 3.

Expression Studio and Silverlight have been designed from the ground up to make it easier to succeed when creating these experiences by focusing on three key areas. ‘Going beyond HTML’ with richer graphics, layout, controls and video; ‘Playing well with Others’ because you need your application to work on many platforms and browsers and to connect to your existing HTML and backend Web services; and enabling ‘Rapid Development’ using built-in .NET framework support and powerful design and development tools Expression Blend and Visual Studio.

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Microsoft DreamSpark is available to all students whose studies touch on technology, design, math, science and engineering. Students of today are more technical in their everyday lives than ever — representing both their personal interests and what is expected of them when they arrive in the workplace for the first time. The following cutting-edge software is available to download* to empower students to unlock their ingenuity by building critical skills:

1. Microsoft developer tools. Visual Studio is the Swiss Army knife of computer programming. These professional-grade products provide a security-enhanced and reliable environment, enabling students to program everything from a cell phone to a robot and even create their own Web page. Students will also be able to invent exciting new gaming content and make their dream game a reality by porting their creations to their Xbox 360 console.
2. Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition
3. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition
4. Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition
5. XNA Game Studio 3.1
6. 12-month Academic membership in the XNA Creators Club**
7. Microsoft designer tools. This ultra-versatile suite of tools will enable students to vividly bring their creative visions to life in vibrant new Web site designs and more effective digital content, including animation, imagery and photography.
8. Expression Studio, including:
• Expression Web
• Expression Blend
• Expression Design
• Expression Media
9. Microsoft platform resources. The foundation for development and design platforms, these products deliver a security-enhanced and manageable environment for students to more quickly turn ideas into reality.
10. SQL Server 2008, Developer Edition
11. SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition
12. Windows Server, Standard Edition

Learn More About DreamSpark

*Download fees and charges may apply as set by your Internet Service Provider.
** Terms and conditions apply to subscription - see https://www.dreamspark.com/Products/Product.aspx?ProductId=3