Which is why they have BizSpark. They need to do a better job pushing/selling it. And yes, I understand many here on HN get that it's an attempt to lock in the business at a high long term cost for a short term (and I assume many HNers would say marginally small) gain.
EDIT: Was finally able to get the page to load... I see the author alluded to this: "Yes, BizSpark is a great program for giving free Microsoft stuff to startups. It’s like a drug dealer giving free samples to get you hooked on their expensive and now compulsory wares."
If you can even get them to give you the free hit. They seem to have 4 simple requirements met, but I've been turned down for the program even though I'm just a guy developing a single web app product on .NET who started a month ago and have no income yet. I've reapplied but I'm not sure it's worth it. I may end up porting it to Rails or attempting to get it to run on Mono.
EDIT: Was finally able to get the page to load... I see the author alluded to this: "Yes, BizSpark is a great program for giving free Microsoft stuff to startups. It’s like a drug dealer giving free samples to get you hooked on their expensive and now compulsory wares."