I was looking on the MSDN Academic Alliance Website and noticed that when students acquire a license for the software under this program that the license "never" expires.
"Whether your school department has chosen an Online (downloads-only) subscription or an Online+Media subscription, you are able to obtain free Microsoft software with a license that never expires—even after you graduate!"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/academic/dd759402.aspx
About a year ago, I took a Computer Science course at an eligible state University. During the course, I acquired a license for what I believe to be VS2008 Pro (or maybe VS2005 Pro); unfortunately, I have upgraded computers since course termination
and in the process deleted the original software installation from my old computer.
Since my license "never expires" can I now reinstall the mentioned product onto my new computer provided I can find the originally downloaded file and license keys? I only wish to use the VS2008 Pro Academic Alliance product for non-profit,
recreational development of open source software and I am disturbed by the fact that Microsoft will not be releasing a Standard Version of VS2010.
It seems that the only decent C++ compiler that is freely available these days is GCC and I have a slight disagreement with RMS right now...
