August 6, 2009 at Windows 7 is free for students, graduate students and teachers
Starting today, as part of the MSDN subscription, the Academic Alliance has become available for downloading and installing Windows 7.
Update. In the ELMS system, the operating system is now also available. If you don’t see it, ask the administrator to check the box next to the image.
This means that now any student, graduate student, faculty teacher who is subscribed can get their copy of Windows 7 for free . The English version is currently available. On August 14, Windows Server 2008 R2 should appear in the subscription. On August 21, Russian versions of products should appear. upd 25.08
On August 21, the download of the third wave of installation images, including Russian, began. The final end date of the 3rd wave is October 1 (see also here ). We will report separately as soon as the images become available under MSDNAA.
upd 26.08. You can also subscribe to RSS feeds to monitor the appearance of new products in subscriptions: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/subscription-downloads.rss (En) and msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/subscription -downloads.rss (Ru).
Windows 7 also appeared in MSDN and TechNet subscriptions.
MSDN AA is a university subscription to Microsoft software at a special discounted price, while:
- all MSDN AA software is available free of charge to all students, teachers and faculty members for educational and research purposes;
- All software can be installed on any number of computers in the classrooms and laboratories of the faculty.
If this program operates at your faculty, then in addition to Windows 7 you can get free access to such products as:
If you are an MSDN AA administrator and have questions about setting up and using a subscription, please address them to me - you can write to konkich@microsoft.com (put in the [MSDNAA] subject).
If your administrator has questions, you can write there too.
ps We really want students and teachers in Russia to have the opportunity to use Microsoft products for free :)
Update. In the ELMS system, the operating system is now also available. If you don’t see it, ask the administrator to check the box next to the image.
This means that now any student, graduate student, faculty teacher who is subscribed can get their copy of Windows 7 for free . The English version is currently available. On August 14, Windows Server 2008 R2 should appear in the subscription. On August 21, Russian versions of products should appear. upd 25.08
On August 21, the download of the third wave of installation images, including Russian, began. The final end date of the 3rd wave is October 1 (see also here ). We will report separately as soon as the images become available under MSDNAA.
upd 26.08. You can also subscribe to RSS feeds to monitor the appearance of new products in subscriptions: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/subscription-downloads.rss (En) and msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/subscription -downloads.rss (Ru).
Windows 7 also appeared in MSDN and TechNet subscriptions.
What is MSDN AA?
MSDN AA is a university subscription to Microsoft software at a special discounted price, while:
- all MSDN AA software is available free of charge to all students, teachers and faculty members for educational and research purposes;
- All software can be installed on any number of computers in the classrooms and laboratories of the faculty.
If this program operates at your faculty, then in addition to Windows 7 you can get free access to such products as:
- Windows Server 2008 R2,
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (various editions),
- Visual Studio 2008 (various editions),
- Expression Studio 3,
- Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R2,
- Microsoft CCR and DSS Toolkit 2008 R2,
- XNA Game Studio 3,
- Microsoft Surface SDK,
- Access 2007,
- InfoPath 2007,
- OneNote 2007,
- Project 2007,
- Office SharePoint Server 2007
- and many others that may require study and research.
- MSDN AA Program Overview (573KB)
- ELMS Overview (299KB)
- ELMS - Operating Instructions (5 MB)
If you are an MSDN AA administrator and have questions about setting up and using a subscription, please address them to me - you can write to konkich@microsoft.com (put in the [MSDNAA] subject).
If your administrator has questions, you can write there too.
ps We really want students and teachers in Russia to have the opportunity to use Microsoft products for free :)