Microsoft announced two free license programs , for individual or companies with less 10 employees++ you can get this program, to help companies and individuals to use Microsoft technology, of curse there is another program for student that called DreamSpark Microsoft offers a variety of programs to help companies who develop and market solutions based on Microsoft technologies, provide consulting or technical services for Microsoft systems.
And each program has a registration requirement for example for the DreamSpark program you will need to get e-mail of youname@yourUniveristy.com and start register to the program using this email and then you can start download the software. For overview of the 3 programs see the following link Licenses overview
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