Microsoft promises to give away key virtualization spec

From theRegister.com

Hoping to up interest in its virtualization wares, Microsoft today freed up one of its key specifications used to manipulate virtual servers and applications.

Redmond has pushed the Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Image Format specification under the umbrella of its Open Specification Promise (OSP). That means that Microsoft will license out VHD for free and promises not to sue companies which build their own products around the spec

Link:

http://www.theregister.com/2006/10/17/microsoft_vhd_away/

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