Oh I have my facts straight. Straight from Microsoft that is. As you can see, Visual Studio Express is pretty much just the IDE, and a stripped down version at that, and guess what, it includes even less documentation than normally.
Pretty much just the IDE? Err what about the "Included languages - VB, VC#, VC++, and VJ#" then?.
And as for the documentation, I wouldn't call 10mb of documents insignificant. The IDE also includes full intellisense as well.
The key thing as I see it is that the initial user experience is based on what they receive in return for their money, officially supported, by BRL. As it stands at the moment, the 'out of the box' experience falls a bit short (IMHO)of what it could be. Especially given that in the past (with earlier versions of Blitz) it was better.