Looks like Micro$oft is getting nervous


Wants to limit Vista installs
I'm actually pretty glad to see this. It means that a lot of people are going to get burned by Micro$oft and start looking for alternatives.

Competition is good.

This is from a Macintosh site.

As a part of Vista's new licensing procedures, Microsoft has announced that only Vista Business and Ultimate will be legally permitted to be installed in a virtual machine. Parallels is a virtual machine. This means that in order to have a legal install of Vista on Parallels, you must have either Business or Ultimate.

Of course, there is nothing stopping you from installing Vista Home or Premium in Parallels, Windows Genuine Advantage and Activation will not block Home versions of Vista from being installed in Windows. Microsoft has only stated their interpretation of the license... we won't be able to analyze the license itself until it is released.

Parallels is a Macintosh program that creates a virtual Windows machine within a Macintosh environment. The early word is that an Intel Mac runs Vista better than most of the dedicated Windows machines, using either Parallels or Apple's Boot Camp.

This looks like a fear reaction to me.

Did I mention the non-Macintosh restrictions on Vista?

The first is that once you have installed Vista on a machine you can only move it once. If you have an upgrade of your motherboard or anything else that will cause the operating system to think that it is a new computer you have to buy a new copy of Vista.

I think Micro$oft is going to lose customers.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Tue - October 17, 2006 at 05:28 AM  Tag


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