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Microsoft Giving Away Developer Software (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Microsoft Corp. is giving students free access to its most sophisticated tools for writing software and making media-rich Web sites, a move that intensifies its competition with Adobe Systems Inc. and could challenge open source software's popularity.

Gates?woos?schools with?free software (Financial Times) - Microsoft is to give away some of its core software to university and high school students around the world in an effort to win over the next generation of software developers to its technology.

New software enables flexible staff benefits (Bangkok Post) - The consulting firm Watson Wyatt (Thailand) has developed software that it says will make it easier for companies to design flexible benefit packages. Many firms simply offer one-benefit-fits-all packages to employees as managing individual benefit schemes has proved complicated.

Srishti Software ties up with Vinayaka Mission Hospital to install Paras HIS (PharmaBiz) - Srishti Software has inked a pact with the Vinayaka Mission Hospital, a 410 bed super-specialty tertiary care facility to install the hospital management system (HIS), Paras.

Quarter of all Aussie software is illegal (ZDNet Asia) - Australia's software piracy rate is dropping, but not as aggressively as some in the industry would like.

Disney Seeks to Increase Holding in UTV Software (Update3) (Bloomberg.com) - Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Walt Disney Co., the second-largest U.S. media company, plans to raise its stake in India's UTV Software Communications Ltd., maker of last year's box-office hit ``The Namesake.''

UTMB says worrisome software runs smoothly (Galveston County Daily News) - GALVESTON — Despite concerns from consultants who rated the project as poor, nearly $32 million in PeopleSoft software is running smoothly, University of Texas Medical Branch officials say.

Walt Disney Seeks Controlling Stake in UTV Software (Update2) (Bloomberg.com) - Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Walt Disney Co., the second-largest U.S. media company, may acquire a controlling stake in India's UTV Software Communications Ltd., maker of last year's box-office hit ``The Namesake,'' after it offered to buy additional shares.

Microsoft Gives Students Access to Technical Software at No Charge to Inspire Success and Make a Difference (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance) - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates today will unveil a software giveaway that will ultimately provide millions of college and high school students around the world with access to the latest Microsoft developer and designer tools at no charge to unlock their creative potential and set them on the path to academic and career success.

Workshops focus on software (Coventry Evening Telegraph) - A SERIES of workshops are being staged to help businesses and individuals make the most their computerised software.