Well, of course, the first reason is bcos the Singapore government says so. Singapore is a place really, that if the government sets a vision, they'd really put in money and resources to get it done. There's an exceeding high demand of media personels today, which of course, supply is low in. Microsoft...
The announcement had been made days ago, that Expression Webdesign WILL NOT be available to MSDN suscribers, due to the fact that Expressions is more positioned to designers, rather then developers. However, if you're from an academic institute, you might be lucky this time round, as Expression Web would...