I recently joined the IEEE. I think I was a member about 20 years ago but didn't keep up. I got an email soon after joining from the Microsoft MSDN Academic Alliance (I am a student member). I had access to this site before because CU-Boulder is recognized in the program. But I perused the software list again and was quite pleased.
About the only thing students can't get free from Microsoft is Vista Premium or Office. Server 2003, WinXP, and Vista Business are all there (along with a slew of OS variations I'm not familiar with). You can't get Office (even though Microsoft sells it to students for $60). But you can get Groove, Visio, Access and Project - go figure. You can also get Microsoft's media suite - which I've never even installed. I have an academic license for Adobe CS3 and would likely be disappointed.
The development tools have been expanded to include the Team edition Visual Studio (both 2005 and 2008). This is exciting to me. I've been wanting to use the code profiler in Team on MRVIN. I've tried other profilers and MRVIN implements a memory instrumenter but I'd really like to get some details on where my code spends the most amount of time...
Oh yeah - all this stuff is basically free if you are a student...
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