Vista vs Ubuntu: this time, it's virtual
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| Of course, I can't just put a Windows OS on my Ubuntu machinery - don't have
| an unused Genuine Windows Advantage XP or Vista, and to reuse anything would
| be against the licence. And I couldn't run the more inexpensive versions of
| Vista in a virtual environment at all, even if I'd paid full retail, because
| that's against the licence too.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006236o-2000331777b,00.htm
The solution is simple. Don't use Windows Vista at all. Microsoft's vanity will
cost them. Nobody needs to run Vista instead of XP anyway.
Related:
Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says
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| For example, a number of companies have moved back to Windows XP after
| deploying Vista, Crawford said, before quoting Scott Granneman, an author,
| entrepreneur and adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis, as
| saying, "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your
| Windows box, you just have to work on it."
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2168426,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
Microsoft Says No Windows Virtualization on Top of Linux
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| Microsoft will not allow Windows Vista or Windows XP to be virtualized on top
| of Linux, Sam Ramji, the director of Microsoft's open-source software lab,
| said at the annual LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here Aug. 7.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2168183,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
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| The restrictions on virtualization were discussed here a couple of
| months ago, but now the more people are waking up to the EULA restrictions.
|
| MS claims it is "necessary for security reasons" and that only the "most
| technically savvy users, or people in companies with tech support,
| probably could handle Vista in virtualization programs, while home users
| should be steered away."
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070222/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_virtual_vista_2
Is need for control behind Microsoft's flip-flop?
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| Meanwhile, Gartner analyst Michael Silver took Microsoft to task
| for its continued restrictions.
|
| "Microsoft's policies...come off as a way to gouge customers," Silver
| said in an e-mail, noting that customers are forced to pay for higher
| priced editions, even though they don't get many of the benefits, like
| the Aero user interface, which often won't work in a virtual machine.
|
| Silver argues that Microsoft is likely leaving money on the table.
| "Allowing use of lower priced (editions) could even be worth more
| money to Microsoft as it would likely increase the number of people
| that would legally run a Microsoft OS in a VM (like on a Mac),"
| Silver wrote. "Eventually they will have no choice but to make their
| peace with virtualization."
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