A number of our developers have installed beta versions, only to have to uninstall it and reinstall the old version. As this is time consuming, it would be much more advantageous to be able to install a beta version on a virtual machine rather than overwriting the release version. The problem of course is with licensing as virtual machines have a different MAC address than their host. We wouldn't want to have to use a license just to test a beta version. Are there any plans to support this via longer expiration date for betas or some other method to facilitate testing?

John,



One thing you could do is just temporarily deactivate the normal license, then reactivate on the beta to test, deactivate there, reactivate on normal. I do this a lot in order to work at home and remotely.