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1. Comment - Microsoft Manager Says It Considered Banning Vista Virtualization

   (Feb 24, 2007 - 5:58 AM)

   "For that reason, Windows Vista Home Basic and Windows Vista Home Premium cannot be installed in any virtual machine technology, but Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate can. This is regardless of the virtualization stack, applying equally to use with Microsoft's virtualization technology, Virtual PC, and third-party virtualization technology."
   
   This means it will not run on ANY VM at all (without some hacking or patching). Some of us users do not run any M$ OS as a primary, but for certain needed programs have to run up a system in VMware or the like. This is either forcing someone who elects to not run Vista as their primary OS into paying for more than what they need, or forcing me to use an older version of my needed software. Software companies need to keep up with the times. For trade specific software this makes supporting 2 or more platforms expensive and impractical. This leaves me at the choice of running an older and out of date version of my trade specific software, paying more for Vista just so I can have the "privelige" of running their bloatware, or finding a nice coder to illegally patch this restriction out of Vista. M$ is very well aware at the number of linux and mac moxes out there running a VM of XP to run that one program, and this is just one more way to get a bit more money out of us. Thank goodness for codeweavers getting most of my stuff running.