>>The other Express Products will be "low-cost" and "easy to acquire," according to the website. Now only time will tell exactly what that means.
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>On an Italian Mailing-List someone (not Microsoft of course) as said that the Express Editions will cost less than 100 dollars.
>Don't ask me how much this info is reliable....
>

Franco,

You can currently buy each .NET language individually for less than $100.

VB.NET at amazon, for example

Maybe it will be less than $50?