To provide you with better opportunities to realize your potential, and nurture your talent, Microsoft offers assistance in multiple ways. These include:

Free Software for Download
You can now download Microsoft products directly. Just follow the link and find everything to start coding for the best of platforms.

MSDN Academic Alliance
MSDN Academic Alliance makes it simpler and less expensive for academic institutions to use the latest Microsoft developer tools, platforms and servers for instruction and research. The Academic Alliance program is designed specifically for departments that teach any of the subjects related to computer science, engineering or information systems.