Free tools for Education

First off, I’m happy to have written this while on a plane.  I'm posting now that I'm in the Detroit airport - using my phone as a modem.

One of my peers recently built a PowerPoint deck that focuses on all the solutions we literally give away that are valuable to education.  The resulting list is longer than you might expect.  In the last year we have made significant investments in education including Microsoft Student (not free, but very cool).  The following list comes from the slide deck I mentioned plus I added a few.  The sort order starts with things focused directly on education and ends with free tools that benefit customers in education.

Windows Live @ EDU

Education Pack for Tablet PC

Shared Computer Toolkit

Learning Essentials for Office

Sharepoint Web Parts and Site Templates for Teachers/Classrooms

Office Templates for Education

Calculator Plus

Windows Movie Maker

Photostory

Producer

Windows Live Safety

Windows Defender

Desktop Search

MSN Messenger

MSN Spaces

Virtual Server Enterprise

TechNet Virtual Labs

Visual Studio Express

SQL Express

Office Live Basic

Online training for developers and users

Office Viewers, Office resources such as ClipArt, PowerToys, Windows Mobile Add-Ins, TabletPC Add-Ins, Migration Tools, and on and on..  Feel free to add more through comments!