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Microsoft Tells Some Users No on Vista | |
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| Time: 11:39 EST/16:39 GMT | News Source: *Linked Within Post* | Posted By: Andre Da Costa | ||
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After years of delays and billions in development and marketing efforts, it would seem that Microsoft Corp. would want anyone who possibly can to buy its new Windows Vista operating system. Yet Microsoft is making it hard for Mac owners and other potentially influential customers to adopt the software. Microsoft says the blockade is necessary for security reasons. But that is disputed. The circumstances might simply reflect a business decision Microsoft doesn't want to explain. The situation involves a technology known as virtualization. Essentially, it lets one computer mimic multiple machines, even ones with different operating systems. It does this by running multiple applications at the same time, but in separate realms of the computer. | ||
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| #1 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 2/22/2007 1:47:34 PM |
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"Instead, people wanting to put Vista in a virtualized program have to buy the $299 Business version or the $399 Ultimate package."
Or ... for 359$ they could buy a PC from Dell with Vista on it. |
| #2 By 28692 (216.185.210.251) at 2/22/2007 1:58:49 PM |
| Do Business or Ultimate versions have some security features (relevant to virtualization) that Basic and Home versions do not? Or it due to support concerns? |
| #3 By 2960 (24.254.95.224) at 2/22/2007 2:38:48 PM |
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It's all bullshit. They just want you to pay a higher price for the upper versions.
It's called marketing. TL |
| #4 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 2/22/2007 3:31:06 PM |
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Supposedly the EULA says:
"USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system." Some people take that to mean you can't use it at all. Some take it to mean that you can't create a virtual machine using the same licensed copy running on the actual hardware. Since Vista Enterprise and Vista Ultimate allow you to have virtual machines running using the same copy of the OS that running ont he hardware, I lean towards the view that you can of course run Vista Basic as VM if it isn't running on the base hardware. From the Ultimate/Enterprise EULA: For Vista Enterprise and Ultimate Editions: “USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system on the licensed device. If you do so, you may not play or access content or use applications protected by any Microsoft digital, information or enterprise rights management technology or other Microsoft rights management services or use BitLocker. We advise against playing or accessing content or using applications protected by other digital, information or enterprise rights management technology or other rights management services or using full volume disk drive encryption.” |
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