>>>Yes, this was announced several months ago on UT. Myself and several others registered promptly and had no problems. I can imagine these seminars filling up quickly, expecially with the free software they are giving away.
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>>I was a little disappointed with the freebies though. We got VS2008 standard as a full Not for Resale version, Vista Ultimate I think is a full version (I haven't looked yet), but Server 2008 Enterprise was a trial version and of course SQL 2008 is just a CTP.
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>What does the not-for-resale mean? Does it mean that you can't resell the license, or does it mean you can't sell software you create with it?
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>It will be nice to have Vista Ultimate. The Server 2008 limitation kind of sucsk, but IIRC it was a full year? SQL doesn't bother me that much because they usually have a free Express version I use.

Not for resale means you can't turn around and sell the Not-For-Resale software - VS2008 Standard in this case. You can use it for whatever the normal license allows including developing/selling/distributing applications built with it - you just can't sell the NFR software itself.

We present or have a partner table at Microsoft events around this area fairly frequently and we try to have NFR software that we can give away at the events (usually by doing a drawing).