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Microsoft's Virtualization Stance Eying Apple?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shifty-glances dept.

Pisces writes "Over the past several days, Microsoft has flip-flopped on virtualization in Vista, with one ascribing the change in policy to concerns over DRM. A piece at Ars Technica raises another, more likely possibility: fear of Apple. Apple is technically an OEM, and could offer copies of Vista at a discounted price. 'All of this paints a picture in which Apple could use OEM pricing to offer Windows for its Macs at greatly reduced prices and running in a VM. The latter is absolutely crucial; telling users that they need to reboot into their Windows OS isn't nearly as sexy as, say, Coherence in Parallels. If you've never seen Coherence, it's quite amazing. You don't need to run Windows apps in a VM window of Vista. Instead, the apps appear to run in OS X itself, and the environment is (mostly) hidden away. VMWare also has similar technology, dubbed Unity.' Is Microsoft terrified of a world where Windows can be virtualized and forced to take a back seat to Mac OS X or Linux?"

6 of 238 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Terrified? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah. The 50 yr old neighbor of mine was asking me the benefits of running Vista in one VM, Mac OS on the other, while using Ubuntu as her main OS, and then combining that with the power of VM running under Mac to virtually run XP just in case she needs to use an application not compatible with Vista, Mac OS and Ubuntu Linux. Microsoft is worried indeed.

  2. Re:I think Microsoft is more concerned... by Gilmoure · · Score: 3, Funny

    My wrong?

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    I drank what? -- Socrates
  3. Re:I think Microsoft is more concerned... by djdavetrouble · · Score: 4, Funny

    WRONG. Apple is a secret society and what they are selling is actualy MIND CONTROL
    disguised as cute little music players and phones.

    --
    music lover since 1969
  4. While we're at it... by p3d0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    If typing "my wrong?" takes you all day, you need typing lessons.

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    Patrick Doyle
    I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
  5. Re:I think Microsoft is more concerned... by Nossie · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The High Tech Redneck"

    says it all really does it not it?

    I'll say no more and bow out gracefully.

    *laughs hysterically*

  6. Re:I think Microsoft is more concerned... by kabz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Netscape for Windows didn't run stably under Windows!

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    -- "It's not stalking if you're married!" My Wife.