...Unless you pay a lot of money.
Microsoft Vista licence restrictions hit hardware hard
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| While the expensive versions of Vista, Vista Ultimate and Vista Business,
| can be installed within a Virtual Machine environment, Vole forbids you
| from doing so with the cheaper Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35057
Another way of punishing/suppressing users of VMWare, Xen, Parallels, Boot
Camp...
meanwhile, on the dual-boot front:
Vista scoots to new boot, but it's still kinda rooted
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| While Microsoft would like the world to believe that anyone running Windows
| has no need of any other operating system, that attitude doesn't cut much
| mustard with many of its users.
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http://www.apcstart.com/site/akidman/2006/09/1656/vista-scoots-to-new-boot-but-its-still-kinda-rooted
So, essentially, Microsoft now owns your hardware and controls the way it is
being used. Not to mention DRM for your data, WGA, and TC...
