Microsoft Flip Flops on Vista Virtualization

Jun 19, 2007, 10:23 PM #1
Purplish Senior Member Join: Oct 2006 Posts: 540	Microsoft Flip Flops on Vista Virtualization It seems that Microsoft was planning to announce that the home versions of Vista would be allowed to run in virtual machines. However, they have changed their minds. See article here in CNET I think this is an outrage. You can buy a whole windows Vista PC for $500, but they want MAC users to spend $400 for Vista alone, and typically for just a few apps. Maybe the antitrust people should look at this.
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Jun 19, 2007, 10:23 PM

Purplish
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Microsoft Flip Flops on Vista Virtualization

It seems that Microsoft was planning to announce that the home versions of Vista would be allowed to run in virtual machines. However, they have changed their minds.

See article here in CNET

I think this is an outrage. You can buy a whole windows Vista PC for $500, but they want MAC users to spend $400 for Vista alone, and typically for just a few apps.

Maybe the antitrust people should look at this.

Jun 19, 2007, 10:29 PM #2
franc12 Junior Member Join: May 2007 Posts: 4	this is why when I bought my mbp in Dec, I picked up a copy of xp home- because I just new that new isn't always better- and that vista might not work properly or be a resource hog.
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Jun 19, 2007, 10:38 PM #3
Purplish Senior Member Join: Oct 2006 Posts: 540	I agree. Clearly it is best to stay with XP as long as possible.
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Jun 19, 2007, 10:43 PM #4
DerekS Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 61	I second that vote. Vista is too much hassle for not enough benefit. The virtualization restrictions just clinch the deal.
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Jun 20, 2007, 12:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Purplish

It seems that Microsoft was planning to announce that the home versions of Vista would be allowed to run in virtual machines. However, they have changed their minds.

I think this is an outrage. You can buy a whole windows Vista PC for $500, but they want MAC users to spend $400 for Vista alone, and typically for just a few apps.

Maybe the antitrust people should look at this.

Whoa - it's like deja vu. http://forum.parallels.com/thread12914.html

Jun 20, 2007, 01:27 AM #6
simplicity Member Join: Jul 2006 Posts: 93	It's not much in the ways of a defense, but you're not allowed to run OSX in a virtual machine at all. That's any edition of OSX (desktop, server.) My only guess would be that it screws around with the whole Vista activation thing. My bet would be that the Home editions are more than likely under tighter control.
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Jun 20, 2007, 08:55 AM #7
Purplish Senior Member Join: Oct 2006 Posts: 540	My guess is that Microsoft is terrified of Apple's 2% market share.
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Jun 23, 2007, 07:47 AM #8
Lago di Cuba Junior Member Join: Jun 2007 Posts: 12	I know someone who has activated Vista Home Premium running in Parallels (3.0). No problem encountered. Anyway, screw MS; if you purchase the software you should be able to run it on any hardware you choose, why should they care?
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