Benki Chendu (8/24/2016)
Will I be able to download evaluation editions of sql 2008/2014 on the VM for free of cost?
For things like this, it's a VM. That means the same rules apply as they would to a VM on your system locally or even your local system. No changes to licensing because the VM happens to be on Azure. The exception to that is outlined in the answer above.
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