Downloading Windows 8 as an ISO image

Hi, I just purchased a 15 inch Macbook Pro with retina display and I wanted to run both Windows 8 and Mac OS X on it. I wanted to do this through Boot Camp Assistant. I purchased Windows 8 from the microsoft store, but it will only download as a .exe file which my computer tells me cannot run on Mac OS X. Any tips on getting it to download as an ISO image? Or any alternative ways to do this? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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one can copy it to a optical disc with free programs on all platforms

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