Microsoft kicks off Asia .Net drive

Microsoft aims to sign up 100,000 developers, or about 10 percent of the total in Asia-Pacific in a new region-wide campaign to boost membership in its .Net developer community.

The U.S.-based software giant has kicked off a membership program called the MSDN (Microsoft Developers' Network) Connection, which it says is its first regionally-organized sign-up drive. Singapore this morning became the first of the 13 countries in the Asia-Pacific to launch the drive, with the other 12 countries to due launch their own campaigns over the next 12 months. Read the full story on CNETAsia.