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Microsoft Flip-flopping on Virtualization License

Posted by samzenpus on from the make-up-your-mind dept.

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."

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  1. Price Tag by Evil+Cretin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since when is a price tag an effective means of combating malware? When it makes people switch to Linux.
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  2. Re:Why bother? by carpe_noctem · · Score: 3, Funny

    It seems that the only thing you can do on Ubuntu that you can't do on windows is troll slashdot...

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  3. UAC for management by vdboor · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are changing the EULA of your latest product. cancel or allow? :-)

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  4. Re:It's obvious by Savage-Rabbit · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is clearly Microsoft suffering a managerial battle of the wills. One half wants to bow down to pressure to reverse the EULA ban on virtulization, while the other half is strong opposed to relenting. So each half is doing a non atomic operation and since each party is working independently of the other and they are constantly interrupting each others non atomic decision making process schizophrenic statements ensue. Correct me if I am wrong but that's a type of race condition isn't it?
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