[goatinaboat]

got an MCAD once because my employer was offering it for free. This was so they could secure a "partner" status and get a license discount.

Same here, but MCSE used to come with all sorts of goodies like a free TechNet subscription. That ceased long ago however.

[qz2]

Indeed. Although now I just fire up an instance in AWS for a bit if we need to play with something. But I rarely if ever touch windows now past using it as a shell for some electron apps and terminals :)