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Microsoft (finally) broadens Windows Vista virtualization rules | |
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| Time: 12:05 EST/17:05 GMT | News Source: | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Microsoft has lifted its ban on enabling Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium in virtual machine environments. The company announced on January 20 its decision to add the two new SKUs and planned to update its end-user license agreement to reflect the change. (Microsoft was planning on making the announcement at 12:01 a.m. on January 21, but another publication broke the embargo, so the company is going out with the news early.) Microsoft almost announced in June, 2007, that it was relaxing some of its virtualization rules for Windows Vista, in order to allow users of a wider number of Vista SKUs to make use of virtualization technology on the desktop. Then, in the eleventh hour, something happened — exactly what still remains unclear — and Microsoft ended up halting the planned virtualization changes. |
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| #1 By 2960 (72.196.195.185) at Monday, January 21, 2008 03:42:59 PM |
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Can anyone make ANY sense out of this?
TL |
| #2 By 97312 (89.83.39.130) at Monday, January 21, 2008 04:23:35 PM |
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They hesitated.
I can understand the hesitation. One of the reasons is that allowing an affordable version of vista to be run in a virtual machine under Mac OS is very dangerous for Microsoft business. Let me explain: This is what usually happened to many switchers (before today); 1) They buy a Mac because the hardware is tempting, knowing that they can still install Windows Vista. 2) They install Vista because they need it to use the applications they are used to. They install it via Boot Camp (dual boot) because they cannot virtualize it. 3) They end up constantly and exclusively using Vista, because they don't want to reboot constantly, and it's not handy to use the two OS's (for example, it's not possible to read a Mac partition from the Windows partition without using a third party commercial app, which they won't use). So this was good for Microsoft, because the users were kept to Windows. Today announcement will change how things work. This is what will happen to the switchers starting from today: 1) They buy a Mac because the hardware is tempting, knowing that they can still install Windows Vista. 2) They install Vista in a virtual machine such as Parallels Desktop or VMWare, which both work really great because they integrate seamlessly with MacOS (the windows are mixed, etc.), they are very fast, they allow accessing the files on both partitions, and they even support DirectX 8 (soon they will even support DirectX 9). 3) They progressively get to know the applications and features of Mac OS because they can try them out without rebooting 4) They progressively realize that you can do the same stuff on Mac OS, and they start to love the UI of those apps (they discover Safari to replace IE, they discover iWork to replace Office, etc.) 5) They end up using exclusively Mac OS, and they stop using the VM because it takes a lot of memory and it slightly slows down the Mac apps. Bottom line: today announcement is great news for the humanity, but I think it is very risky for the Microsoft business in the long term. IMHO, HappyColors |
| #3 By 89137 (216.145.133.6) at Monday, January 21, 2008 10:23:23 PM |
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In other news...
ActiveWin.com (finally) updates it's website Oh wait - that must have been a dream... |
| #4 By 2960 (72.196.195.185) at Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:12:32 AM |
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Yeah. I need to have two copies of ActiveWin open these days. One for reading, the other for the inevitable 2 minutes to post problem (with bonus failures at random).
TL |
| #5 By 2231 (72.5.151.4) at Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:20:35 AM |
| It may be a sign of desperation that Vista's numbers are not where Microsoft wants them to be. |
| #6 By 92283 (64.180.196.172) at Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:46:38 PM |
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My understanding is that the license prevented installation of Basic or Premium, but nothing physically prevented the installation.
So what has changed in reality? |
| #7 By 8556 (12.208.163.138) at Tuesday, January 22, 2008 04:07:18 PM |
| #5: One can look at the "failure" of Vista as customers choosing Windows XP instead. Either way, the profit at Microsoft keeps growing and growing. With more open Virtualization the lower cost versions of Vista may now be tested virtually. This can only help Microsoft. With the use of Game Theory these days to determine possible outcomes using various stratagies, don't ever assume that any action taked by Microsoft (or Google, a user of Game Theory in their business practices) has any goal other than to increase the bottom line. These guys aren't guessing anymore. |
