For the average guy in the street a subscription of over $1000 per annum is
a lot to pay just to get your hands on a 'beta' copy of Vista which will,
undoubtedly, expire within 180 days or so.
As for knowing someone who is an msdn member we are not allowed to lend
copies of msdn software to other people. The only exception would be
colleagues who are part of the same software development team and working in
the same building.