In follow up to my previous post, Students!!! - Get MS Office Ultimate 2007 for 39 Quid! An Absolute Steal!!, I was reminded this morning about Dreamspark which is a great offer for Students to get hold of some excellent development and design software.  On offer for free to students who match the eligibility requirements are:

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition
• Microsoft Expression Studio
• XNA Games Studio 2.0
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition - shortly to be updated to Windows Server 2008 (which includes IIS 7 ;))

This is an excellent offer and one which represents a massive saving for students wanting to develop on the Microsoft Platform.  For more information visit the Dreamspark Section on Channel 8.