Visual Studio/Visual C++

A junior student gave me a spare free license to use VS/VC++ for 2 years, I've always used codeblock for C# and C++ and Eclipse for JAVA, dunno If I should take this step, mostly because I don't feel like paying a 12k $ license once these 2 years end but is still tempting.
Can you give me a slight insight? Please not hurr durr use emacs/gentoo/etc

got key-licenses for any MS product IDES(all versions pro-team)/XNA SUBS/SERVERS/HOME/ETC.
sold for decent prices, if anyone's interested post