Many developers have been complaining at having to install a server on their development machine in order to code against WSS/MOSS. I wouldn't have thought it possible but someone has stepped up to the plate and made it happen... thanks to Jonas Nilsson, principle architect of MashPoint we can do our WSS coding on our main development PC.

No longer will you have to be slave to your VM. Although VMs are still the best thing since sliced bread, the achilles heel of SharePoint has always been the lack of consideration for the development environment. People running demos for clients and giving presentations will find this particularly useful. Take a bow Jonas!

Read about it here...