Here is a good news for the students from India. Dream Spark India is offering some dream tools absolutely free for students
This contains
1. Free Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition
2. Free Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition
3. Free Microsoft SQL server 2005 developer Edition
4. Free Microsoft Expression studio
5. Free Microsoft Windows server 2003.
6. Free Microsoft Windows server 2008 Standard
7. Free Microsoft Virtual PC
8. Free Microsoft Expression Studio 2
9. Free XNA Game Studio 3.0
To get this offer what you need to have is a windows live id and your id card
1. Get a partner address from this page (select Offline)
2. Show your College Id card and get your DVD
3. Go to the verification page and enter the key on the DVD
4. Login using Windows Live Id
5. Download License Keys
To do it online Select online on the page mentioned in the first page.
My brother who is doing his MCA have got a license already. So fast Enjoy it