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Microsoft Slugs Mac Users With Vista Tax

Posted by samzenpus on from the pay-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mac users wanting to run Vista on their Macintosh, alongside Mac OS X programs, will have to buy an expensive version of Vista if they want to legally install it on their systems. The end-user license agreement for the cheaper versions of Vista (Home Basic and Home Premium) explicitly forbids the use of those versions on virtual machines (i.e., Macs pretending to be PCs)." Update: 02/08 17:50 GMT by KD : A number of readers have pointed out that the Vista EULA does not forbid installing it via Apple's Bootcamp; that is, the "tax" only applies to running Vista under virtualization.

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  1. And, of course... by Helldesk+Hound · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ... those who are utterly enslaved to Microsoft will meekly bend over and lube up while forking over all that dosh AGAIN merely for the (dubious) pleasure of running the latest, greatest re-release of Microsoft WindowsNT.

    There is no good reason why anyone should buy Windows Vista, and plenty of good reasons why people should NOT buy Windows Vista - all of which have been discussed at length elsewhere.

    If they want to run Vi$ta in a VM using MacOSX, then that is their choice. But more fool them!