Today is the last day of my 90 day extension of my TechNet subscription with Microsoft.  It was a great service and offered a lot of value for anyone with their own lab setup at home.  Now that it’s done we still have access to a whole load of excellent resources.  Virtual instructor-led courses can be had at the Microsoft Virtual Academy.  You can get your hands on downloads to install and configure and test through the TechNet Evaluation Center.  Give a product a test drive by using TechNet Virtual Labs.  All good resources.  Not quite the same as the TechNet subs but then if you have the money and really need the resources you can always check out a MSDN subscription.