No virtualization for Vista Home

[Praxicoide]

Microsoft Tells Some Users No On Vista
(http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=2473802&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.6.1)


Apparently you can't run Windows Vista Home editions on virtualization programs because of security concerns.

[Ubunted]

Yes of course, security. That makes perfect sense. :rolleyes:

[steven8]

What a blatant load of garbage. Whether the security issue is true or not. It's garbage if they want to force you to use a more expensive system, and garbage if they give less security to cheaper systems.

Garbage. Just garbage.

[TheKid965]

Garbage it is, but what do you expect with a company that acts like a law unto itself?

Whether the security flaw is real (and given that this is Windows we're talking about, there's probably some truth to it) or just FUD is immaterial. This is MS trying to see how much money they can squeeze out of users before they scream. It's capitalism run amok, plain and simple, and while I generally approve of the capitalist system there do need to be limits, otherwise we become a culture of consumers and nothing more.

Granted that this will affect comparatively few users in the end (the linked article gives a marketshare of 5% for Apple), but the line has to be drawn somewhere, and this is as good a place as any.

[linux_kid]

They want money. Simple as that.

[TheKid965]

It's more than that, I feel... I'm becoming convinced they want all the money.

Not just "all the money they can get," either. I mean all of it. Every penny. And what they can't get honestly, they'll extort by fair means or foul. And if they have to rewrite a few consumer-rights laws along the way, that's no problem... hey, the MPAA and RIAA do it, why can't MS?

</rant> Sorry about that... I just felt like if I didn't get that out I was gonna explode.