Windows 7 is free for students, graduate students and teachers

Starting today, under the MSDN Academic Alliance subscription, it has become available for download and installation of Windows 7.

Update. An ELMS operating system is now also available. If you do not see it, ask the administrator to tick the image.


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This means that now any student, graduate student, teacher of the faculty on which the subscription is issued, can get their own copy of Windows 7 for free .

The English version is currently available. On August 14, Windows Server 2008 R2 should appear in the subscription. August 21 should appear Russian versions of products.

upd 25.08 C On August 21, the download of the third wave of installation images began, including Russian. The ending date for the end of 3 waves is October 1 (see also here ). We will report separately as soon as images become available within MSDNAA.

upd 26.08. You can also subscribe to RSS feeds to keep track of new products in subscriptions: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/subscription-downloads.rss (En) and msdn.microsoft.com/ru-ru/subscriptions/subscription -downloads.rss (Ru).

Also, Windows 7 appeared in MSDN and TechNet subscriptions.

What is MSDN AA?

MSDN AA is a subscription for high schools to Microsoft software at a special discount price, with:
- all MSDN AA software is available for free 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 in your department, 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 be required in studies and research.

To provide students and teachers with access to software, administrators are advised to use ELMS. If the administrator at your university does not know how to set up this system, you can always offer him your help, we have prepared several documents describing the MSDN AA program, the ELMS system and its settings:

• MSDN AA Program Overview (573 KB)
• ELMS Overview (299 KB)
• ELMS - instructions for use (5 MB)

If you have questions about the MSDN AA program, I’ll be happy to answer them in the comments or in a personal.

If you are an MSDN AA administrator and you have questions about setting up and using a subscription, send 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 :)