Who Said MS won't provide software for Free!! "VWD will be free permanently!"
"Effective April 19th, 2006, all Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions including Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual J#, Visual C++, and Visual Web Developer Express will be free permanently!"
Check 'Dan Fernandez's Blog', I extracted above info from his blog. It's @ http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2006/04/19/579109.aspx