Microsoft Gives Researchers and Students Access to Source Code for Web Platform

The Microsoft Corporation is attempting to win the minds of academic researchers and college-age programmers by offering universities more than a million lines of source code derived from some of the same technologies that the company uses in its much-vaunted .NET programming platform for Web services and for Windows.

Apart from restricting commercial use of the source code, Microsoft says it will place no additional restrictions on students or their computer-science professors who use

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