MSDN ACADEMIC ALLIANCE INFORMATION

The MSDN Academic Alliance is a membership program that Microsoft provides for companies and educational institutions. BU is a member of this alliance which means that if you are a BU student you can download many of Microsoft's products free of charge.

For more information on the alliance, visit http://www.msdnaa.net . To download software please go to http://www.cs.bu.edu/msdnaa, where you will find detailed directions of how to perform the downloads. One small note, however, is that you must be on the BU network in order to access the software. If you are not on a BU owned machine, you can download the BU VPN from http://www.bu.edu/pcsc/vpn.