MANILA, Philippines -  Microsoft Philippines recently launched BizSpark, a program that intends to provide development tools to Filipino software start-up companies at no upfront cost.

The project’s beneficiaries will be identified by Microsoft’s local partners such as the the Commission of Information and Communications Technology (CICT), the Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA), the newly-formed National ICT Conference of the Philippines (NICP), and the Business Processing Association of the Philippines.

BizSpark, which has a student counterpart program called DreamSpark, is intended to give local start-ups free access to Microsoft development tools and production licenses of server products.

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