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Microsoft Flip-flopping on Virtualization License
Cole writes "Microsoft came within a few hours of reversing its EULA-based ban on the virtualization of Vista Basic and Premium, only to cancel the announcement at the last minute. The company reached out to media and bloggers about the announcement and was ready to celebrate "user choice" before pulling the plug, apparently clinging to security excuses. From the article, "The threat of hypervisor malware affects Ultimate and Business editions just as much as Home Premium and Basic. As such, the only logical explanation is that Microsoft is using pricing to discourage users from virtualizing those OSes. Since when is a price tag an effective means of combating malware?" Something else must be going on here."
Your original statement was that you could not think of a reason run Windows native or virtualized. You have just given a reason why you would want to run Windows native - GTA and Civ 2. Now kindly please shut up.
i'm so sick of that bullshit excuse. WRONG, you can't just do as you please in the world. that's the kind of attitude that's behind everything wrong in the world.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
your an idiot, MS don't even give you technical support. please press alt+f4 right now.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
I've bought the software (note - this is a lie; there's no way I'm going to buy Vista any time soon).
Nice... thanks for letting us know.. a lie. I guess.
Microsoft has made their money.
That's a lie, deducing from your first lie...
They should stop telling me how I can use it.
That's a lie, they can since you purchased a license, and you agree with it to use the software.
This is why I like free software. I'm treated as the owner.
And that's a lie too. You're not the owner. You agree with the license again and need to follow it to use free software.
You liar, liar.
Indeed ..... I remember back in the days, when it used to be the Gentoo users who were the ones who made out that their OS was so amazing, as if it had something unique. At least Gentoo was easy to muck up, so anyone who actually survived the process deserved some sort of respect, even if it was only the grudging sort (cf. extreme sports enthusiasts; anyone who actually runs a marathon or climbs a mountain when there's obviously no good reason to do so has got to be at least slightly hardcore) Nowadays, it's the Ubuntu users who rave about their distro of choice. This is more annoying than the Gentoo ravings. Ubuntu, unlike ordinary Linux distros, uses Gnome as opposed to KDE (Fedora / Red Hat also uses Gnome, but they have tweaked it to look like KDE). And precisely because Ubuntu is easy enough for n00bs to use, you get n00bs using it. This in turn means that Ubuntu users comment like n00bs, because they are n00bs. Meanwhile, Debian users -- yes, Dorothy, there are people who use Debian for other purposes than basing a new distro on -- get the short end.
I suspect (hope) that desperation with the lack of popularity of Vista will force Microsoft's hand.
Right. Because it's obviously that miniscule proportion of people who a) want to virtualise and b) won't just ignore the EULA that is responsible for the "lack of popularity".
It's simple price discrimination. Every business of any notable size does it, but apparently when Microsoft is concerned it's something uniquely evil, because I don't recall similar howls of outrage about, say, Red Hat Enterprise Linux only "supports" two physical CPUs.
dabblers. In truth, ASOCIATION OF
Well I'm running Windows so I can run Logic Audio 5.5 and my Audiowerk 8 output sound card.
Can I run these natively under Ubuntu with full low latency access to all 8 outputs on the Audiowerk ?
Er... No.
Are there equivalents that allow me to do EXACTLY what I can do in Logic Audio on Linux - including running VST plugins/instruments ?
Sadly not.
That's why I'm still running Windows on my Audio machine (which is used to create commercially released recordings).
And why yes, the rest of my machines actually run Ubuntu (two desktops, a laptop and a server)
So just because Ubuntu is fine for your word processing and media playing needs don't go thinking it's fine for everyone. It's not. It's very good for running servers, it's great for a basic desktop machine, there are loads of good applications in all sorts of categories but it's got a hell of a long way to go before it's multimedia capabilities are ready for prime time.
And before I get the usual replies no, Rosegarden, Audacity, Seq24 etc. etc. etc. are nothing like the equivalent of Logic Audio (Kudos to the developers for trying but there's no VST support for starters).
Finally I've got mod points and I would mod your post troll but I only ever mod up.
Sky subscribers are morons. They pay to be advertised at !