If you are starting up a business you are going to spend money on stuff.  You are going to have expenditure.  Software from Microsoft is normally a part of that expenditure. Microsoft announnced the availability of a new program for early stage startups called "BizSpark". BizSpark offers early stage companies Microsoft products at no up-front cost. 

Now with BizSpark, if you are a company that builds software, that expenditure has gone away – you can get Microsoft software for free.  Here’s what you get:

• Software - via the program
• Support - via MSDN (two support incidents per startup) and the resources that the Network Partner has to offer for startups
• Visibility - via BizSparkDB. Startups can profile themselves on BizSparkDB.

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