I don't know if this is really something interesting but I prefer to share a useless information than to let you uninformed.
M$ releases the "Express" version of its programming tool free of charge, for one year, starting from Nov 7th 2005.
The serie includes :
* Visual Basic Express 2005
* Visual C# Express 2005
* Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
* Visual J# 2005 Express Edition
* Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
* SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/