Yesterday, Steve Ballmer re-announced, during his presentation at Liberation Day in Sydney, the launch of BizSpark.

BizSpark is a new initiative from Microsoft that gives startups access to a wide range of MS development software and support services for free, for 3 years.

Actually “for free” is a bit of a fib. Enrollment is free but there’s a $100 exit fee from the program.

To qualify you need to have a business that’s less than 3 years old, does less than US$1Million in revenue and has been approved by a “Network Partner”

There are a few Network Partners listed under Australia already, so if you’d like to develop on the Microsoft platform definitely get in contact with them.