It's finally happening. I've been talking to everyone I know at Microsoft about the benefits of distributing beta software releases as Virtual PC images. See this post from last year. Yes, nearly a year since I first thought of the idea and it has become a reality.
I'd like to think that I had something to do with this. The truth, of course, is that many people inside and outside of Microsoft have been lobbying for it. The delay was caused mostly from the legal issues affiliated with releasing free licenses of software.
I'm really happy to see this announcement from Rob Caron. Visual Studio 2005 Team System Beta 2 VPC released.
The much anticipated download of a fully installed & configured Visual Studio 2005 Team System Beta 2 VPC is now available for download from MSDN Subscriber Downloads.
The idea, have someone who really knows the product create a hard drive image and release it to us as a Virtual PC image. Great idea! Let's see more of these.