As a system administrator, you probably have to show users, every now and then, how to use applications. One way is to explain it “live”, another is to write a tutorial with some screenshots, or to use a tutorial and presentation software like Wink. Usually these tools are quite expensive. But Wink is for free!

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I have read this today on a German news service, heise.de. They say that Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 will be for free. There will be no standard edition anymore, only an enterprise edition. Virtual PC remains a commercial product though.

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I just stumbled upon a press release from VMware. The so-called Open Virtual Machine Disk format is “openly available, downloadable and free of charge to encourage use by all developers and software vendors.” It seems that up to now it’s not yet downloadable though. You have to send an e-mail to VMWare first.

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