Microsoft made a formal announcement about BizSPpark today.  From their web site:

Microsoft® BizSpark™ is a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups by providing key resources when they need it the most:

Basically, Microsoft is doing a solid for startups by providing them with a bunch of full-featured, licensed development tools (including VSTS and TFS Standard Edition to say the least), the MSDN library and a whole lot more.  What do you need to do to qualify?

• Actively be engaged in development of a software-based product or service that will form a core piece of its current or intended business^[1],
• Be privately held,
• Be in business for less than 3 years^[2], and
• Generate less than USD $1 million in annual revenue^[3].

Since that pretty well represents the little guy (including my own business in it's first three years) - I imagine a lot of people are really going to benefit from this program.  Kudos to Microsoft for recognizing their social responsibility in growing new businesses.