DreamSpark Premium
DreamSpark Premium (predecessor: Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance, shortly MSDNAA, MSDN AA and MSDN -AA ) is a licensed program of Microsoft for universities and individual departments of the fields of study computer science, engineering and natural sciences, and vocational schools and vocational schools with a focus on software development ( [ MINT ] ). Membership can be requested for an annual or three-year membership fee. In exchange, the institution receives licenses for most Microsoft products, including operating systems (MS -DOS, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8) and server and software development programs ( such as Windows Server 2008 R2, Visual Studio, Visual source Safe or SQL Server) .. However, not all products from the Microsoft Office family included, are missing Word, Excel and PowerPoint. However Available are some byproducts of the Office package, including (as of May 2012) Access, OneNote, Project and Visio.
The participating institution, the products at any number of internal workstations use ( chairs, laboratories, CIP Islands etc ), provided they are not used for the administration, but only for study and educational purposes.
In addition, students of the university / of the department, as well as trainees of the vocational school can use with the corresponding discipline the mentioned products free for personal, non-commercial use and training. After leaving the university or vocational school, the further use of the thus obtained and installed products to the license terms previously valid is expressly allowed. "Dream Park works with the Microsoft App Store teams to put the students in a position to create Phone and Windows 8 developer's games and applications with Windows. This is the only exception, which allows students to Dream Park available software for profitable purposes is considerable. "
Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance existed in Germany since August 1, 2001. 16 February 2012 MSDN AA has been integrated in Dream Park. The program was renamed DreamSpark Premium. Existing MSDN AA subscription remains valid. DreamSpark Premium is now part of the DreamSpark program, which (universities, technical colleges and vocational schools ) can relate all schools and higher educational institutions. Dream Park contains compared to DreamSpark Premium a smaller range ( it lacks, for example, the desktop operating systems and office compilations taken ). In return, however, eliminates the membership fee if you are a pupil or student.
Dream Park also provides an alternative for all students and pupils represent their institution / department does not participate in DreamSpark Premium, since every student and student can get the software via DreamSpark ( To participate is sufficient, possession of ISIC, an e- mail address of the university or a school proof eg student card )