Microsoft is already in the process of releasing 101 short movies in order to help teach everyone vb.net. If you're willing to watch, and then simply rate just five of these brief presentations, you will be able to obtain a FREE copy of Visual Basic.Net Standard edition.

Truly if you aren't interested in these movies, you won't get very much use out of 'em or this great new software. FWIW, it is also NFR, that is a "Not-For-Resale" copy, so if you are not interested in programming, you might skip over this freebie and leave 'em for those who will use it.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/atthemovies/

It does make a pretty nice gift for developer types, however! Enjoy!

-Mark