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A BizSpark account will cost you $100 over the course of 3 years. You can get every OS they've released and run them on whatever you want. Yes, you'll have to spend time installing the OS, but Win 7 installs pretty quickly these days and that's the only way you're getting IE 9 anyway. It was a pretty good investment for us. I run Win 7 in VMWare Player on Linux & VMWare Fusion on Mac pretty regularly.


BizSpark is really great for a lean startup (we did use it), but it also incurs significant time costs:

- the website was a nightmare to use (maybe it has improved)

- it was impossible to work out what you could and couldn't do - I suggest just use it and ignore details.

- you incur a time debt three years later sorting out OS/Office installs.

If you are funded, MSDN and proper licenses might make more sense.


The admin interface sucks. Downloading software and getting your keys couldn't be much easier though. I haven't had to deal with the accounting end of it yet, so I can't speak to that.




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