TIP: Free Downloads For Windows Vista, XP Professional, Visual Studio 2008, MSDN And Much More
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If you are a student (this works for non-students as well but I expect you to be honest 
), you can download a whole bunch of software for free. How? Well, all you need is to become an ACM student member, and join the MSDN AA (Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance) ACM Student Benefit Program.
Normally it takes around 19$ for you to become a student member but you can do it for free for a limited time by going to http://campus.acm.org/icpc/
So, the steps to get all these software for free are:
- Go to the above mentioned link and sign up for ACM student membership
- Once you join, create an ACM web account
- Log into My ACM, and then opt into MSDN AA ACM Student Benefit Program (Look for the link: Free Software for ACM Students)
- You’ll get an approval email within 24 hours after which you can log on to your MSDN AA account and download your choice of softwares.
The Softwares that you can now download for free through this are:
Windows Vista
Windows XP Professional
Windows Server 2008
Visual Studio 2008 Professional
Visio Professional2007
Office Project Professional 2007
Access 2007
Visual Studio 2005 Team System SQL Server 2005
Expression Studio
Sharepoint Designer 2007
Virtual PC 2007
Virtual PC for Mac 7.0.2
Visual C# 2005 Express Edition
Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
And much, much more!
Let me know if this helped you out or if you have any other such free deals/tips of your own.
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This post has 8 comments
October 9th, 2008
You need to be a participant in the 2008 Inter-College Programming Contest (ICPC) to be offered free membership. Isnt is so? Am i missing something here??
October 9th, 2008
@Rohit: Hmm, just read the finer print (which was not so fine and quite prominently displayed, silly me
). Anyways, it seems they have removed that free sign up offer anyways, but still 19$ for a student membership is a pretty good deal to get software that is otherwise worth 1000s..
March 5th, 2009
does anyone know where to download free for windows vista icon shell and background desktop and toolbar? basically (a theme)…
March 5th, 2009
a theme for windows xp pro…that’s what i have
March 6th, 2009
try crystalxp
March 11th, 2009
I cant seem to find a download that has exe files…is there any downloads where you can just Run the program and it installs windows vista? besides downloading the full version. I just want a theme.
March 11th, 2009
can someone get Xfire? That’d be alot easier to talk in and you can send links to download stuff. Can someone add my Xfire that knows how to install vista themes?
http://www.xfire.com
Free chat program
Xfire is: knight042
Thanks.
March 14th, 2009
hey,
Admin,
Shantanu’s Technophilic Musings.
ACM site wants paid membership,
it is better to give $$$ to Microsoft rather than Acm,
Also Microsoft gives a lot refund in terms of other online better services.