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A number of universities also participate in the Microsoft Academic Alliance which provides licenses and software to the universities and students. Participating universities may offer students copies of WinXP, Visual Studio and a host of other software free of charge (to the student). The tendency of slow reacting academia to use older (somehow perceived as more stable) OS's like Win2K or compatibility issues with particular software used by/at a university may also cause them to switch out the OEM installed OS in favor of something else.