SCAD First Art and Design College in Nation to Receive Cutting …
Source: Earthtimes ()
SAVANNAH, Ga., Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Microsoft has selected the Savannah College of Art and Design as the first art and design college in the nation to receive Expression Studio software, a donation valued at $2.4 million that will put Microsoft’s latest cutting-edge designer and developer tools into the hands of the college’s nearly 9,000 students.
The donation is part of the Designer Academic Alliance Program, an initiative that partners Microsoft with the nation’s leading educational institutions to permit them to use the software maker’s latest technology.
According to Microsoft, this is the largest deployment of their toolset in an educational environment to date. The new software will be available in the college’s computer labs, classrooms and even on the students’ personal computers if they are enrolled in a design-based program at SCAD.
Expression Studio comprises Expression Web for creating standards-based Web sites; Expression Blend (formally Interactive Designer) for designing rich interactive experiences for Windows(R); Expression Design (formally Graphic Designer) for the design of visual elements for Web and Windows experiences; and a new tool, Expression Media, which provides digital asset management and unifies team workflow across the suite.
"The Expression family, together with our Visual Studio(R) development tools and platform technologies, uniquely elevates the craft of design and user experience to the forefront of the software development process," said S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft Corp. "Our goal is to enable designers to collaborate like never before with development teams so that together they can raise the bar for user experiences and deliver compelling, rich, immersive, highly usable applications and across the Web, the Windows desktop, mobile devices and the digital home."
"SCAD is an educational …