I was excited to see the MSDN discount, realized it was double business licenses (Android and iOS bundled together) and doesn't apply to BizSpark or DreamSpark. The discount makes both not much more than a single business license. I can suspect not including the "free" MSDN tiers was done on purpose as well, likely on MS' side. No discount, no benefit of the extended 90-day trial. I can't help but feel my puppy is kicked yet again.

The normal trial is likely not that bad but I consider more than my cost of Visual Studio (yes, free but still) is too big of an investment, at least to pull the trigger. The price to stay in my IDE of choice is pretty steep but there is extreme merit to that over say MonoDevelop.

I'm happy for the partnership but I shouldn't have expected any more than what I'm being given. That's my problem, but one I felt the need to lament about in case someone else tries to do their own digging to come to the same conclusion...