Programmers using one of Microsoft’s latest tools could potentially embroil innocent end users of new applications in future intellectual property disputes - unless Microsoft's final product differs markedly from a Beta version. The warning relates to a Visual Studio 2005 Beta, distributed to tens of thousands of third party programmers through the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN). Programmers using one of Microsoft’s latest application development tools could potentially embroil both themselves and innocent end users of new applications in future intellectual property disputes - unless Microsoft's final release product differs markedly from a Beta version. IT Journalist and Software Inventor Eric Wilson issued the warning after testing a Visual Studio 2005 Beta, distributed to tens of thousands of third party programmers through the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN).
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