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The Next Round in the Virtualization Wars
GvG writes "After making Virtual Server available for free some time ago, Microsoft announced today it is offering Virtual PC as a free (as in beer) download. They also announced a change to the Vista license related to virtualization: Customers who deploy Windows Vista Enterprise have the ability to install up to four (4) copies of the operating system in a virtual machine for a single user on a single device. Even better, nothing in the license requires that Microsoft Virtualization technologies be used - if you want to use a competing product as your Virtualization solution, you still get the four extra licenses for use with VMs."
... does it run... aw, fuckitall.
*head asplode*
What a bargain!
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The only reason MS is doing this, is because they are desperately trying to save a business that's in more trouble than Ronald McDonald cartwheeling through Baghdad.
---southpaw
Is a box with four VMs running Windows four times more vulnerable to attacks than one running a single Windows instance?
How fast at sending spam would such a machine be after (about a minute after it's plugged to the internet) being infected by a worm?
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Isn't Vista already virtual
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