perlnews davidrw Just came across this: [http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/38036] <blockquote><i> <b>Commencing this month, Microsoft will be providing every CPAN author with free access to a centrally-hosted virtual machine environment containing every major version of Windows.</b><br> <br> The result is now practically the entire Perl community has a zero-cost and zero-setup way to doing light development, problem replication, debugging, and ad-hoc hesting on every version of Windows.<br> <br> This arrangement is particularly amazing because it is, to my knowledge, several orders of magnitude larger than anything of this nature ever attempted before with the Open Source community. </i></blockquote> (Also posted @ [http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/12/06/227246.shtml|/.])