# Microsoft Giving 'Visual 2005' software away? Free?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/microsoft-giving-visual-2005-software-away-free/215641>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [February 8, 2007, 10:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/microsoft-giving-visual-2005-software-away-free/215641 "2007-02-08T22:01:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 10:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/microsoft-giving-visual-2005-software-away-free/215641/1 "2007-02-08T22:01:08Z")

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When i say Visual I mean:

visual Basic,  
Visual C#  
Visual C++  
Visual Web Developer  
Visual J#

There giving away them for free…  
[http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/default.aspx](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/default.aspx)

I was just looking through the .NET tutorials and the link to the site was there and now i am wonder why are they giving it away for free? Isnt microsoft Tight and ‘Money. Money. Money’ people?