If you're a student then you're in luck! A few rather awesome companies allow people in education to get their hands on amazing pieces of software for free! Free Student Software.com is an attempt to list them all in one place.
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Autodesk
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Autodesk's Education Community offers a large amount of free engineering and design software packages to students and educators. These include the likes of AutoCAD and 3ds Max along with their Ultimate Product Design, Building Design and Entertainment Creation Suites.
Microsoft
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DreamSpark and OnTheHub are Microsoft's portals for free tools for anyone in education. Depending on what your institution has signed up for, you can get the full Visual Studio, SQL Server, some Office programs and even various Windows operating systems along with a wide range of other powerful packages for no cost whatsoever!
Office 365
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Another one by Microsoft, Office in Education offers free student access to their incredibly powerful Office 365 services.
MSC Software
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MSC Software's Student Editions initiative allow anyone with a recognised student email address to access their powerful, industry leading Adams, MSC Nastran, Marc, SimXpert, Actran and Digimat packages without having spend lots of money.
GitHub
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GitHub have teamed up with loads of different companies to offer their Student Developer Pack. Not only do you get access to the likes of Visual Studio, Unreal Engine, Atom and SendGrid, you also get all the benefits of a GitHub Micro account and can also claim a free .me domain.
JetBrains
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JetBrains's Free For Students: Professional Develoer Tools does what it says on the tin. It offers all of its incredibly popular development packages for free to students.
Intel
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Intel's Free Tools for Students programme allows anyone with a recognised student email address to access its Parallel Studio XE, System Studio and Video Pro Analyzer software absolutely free of charge.
Axure
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Axure's popular wireframing, prototyping and documentation tool Axure RP Pro is available for free through their Free Licenses for Students and Teachers initiative.