Microsoft is giving out, free of charge and with free posting, visual studio 2005 beta 2. I received my copy today, I got a CD with visual studio 2005 team suite, a DVD with visual studio 2005 team foundation server, and a CD with sql server 2005 developer edition community technology preview. None of this stuff installs, they all pop up a not very helpful messagebox saying some problem has occurred. Just thought I'd let those guys locked into a small dark room fixing all installers know :-)
Ivan.
p.s. To make you extra happy they all appear to be using ole