Visual Studio/Visual C++

A junior student gave me a spare free license to use VS/VC++ for 2 years, I've always used codeblock for C# and C++ and Eclipse for JAVA, dunno If I should take this step, mostly because I don't feel like paying a 12k $ license once these 2 years end but is still tempting.
Can you give me a slight insight? Please not hurr durr use emacs/gentoo/etc

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why license when you can pirate
well yeah, why not i mean its your box,  you decide if you want it to be part of some russian's botnet or not