Microsoft has a new way to try out software. John Fontana of Network World describes how it works:
The VHD Test Drive Program, named for Microsoft's Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format, will provide users with free preconfigured .VHD files that can be dropped onto any virtual machine that supports the .VHD format such as Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005, which also is free. The demos stop working after 30 days. It'll also work with Vista sometime next year.
This is a way to demo software without it imposing itself on your computer's delicate balance of DLLs, drivers, and things set up just the way you like them. UGS is the only CAD software company to Microsoft's gotten to sign up, allowing UGS to develop VHD files for their software.
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