He could mean for students. I can download Office 2003 Enterprise edition, plus OneNote and Frontpage for free. I can also download Visual Studio.NET 2003, Symantec Antivirus Corperate 9.0 (ok, that isn't Microsoft, but still) and WinZip 9 free. To their credit, Firefox 0.9 and Thunderbird 0.7 have recently been made available in the same place for download. So not only can you get hundereds or even thousands of dollars of software for free (legally), they give you the choice of open-source alternatives as well.
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He could mean for students. I can download Office 2003 Enterprise edition, plus OneNote and Frontpage for free. I can also download Visual Studio .NET 2003, Symantec Antivirus Corperate 9.0 (ok, that isn't Microsoft, but still) and WinZip 9 free. To their credit, Firefox 0.9 and Thunderbird 0.7 have recently been made available in the same place for download. So not only can you get hundereds or even thousands of dollars of software for free (legally), they give you the choice of open-source alternatives as well.