To Virtualize or not to Virtualize (Windows Vista),That’s The Question

January 22nd, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

Just in case you haven’t heard, Microsoft flip-flopped its earlier decision not to allow users to run Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium as guest operating systems on a virtual machine. Mac users, and virtualization software vendors such as Parallels can rejoice over the news, which has been extensively covered all over the web , with the best commentary coming from:

 CNET News ,  ZDNet blogs, Ars Technica and The Register .

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  1. Pingback by Microsoft Opened Up Virtualization For Vista Under Court Pressure | Virtualization.com on 11 March 2008:

    [...] this year, Microsoft surprisingly flip-flopped its earlier decision not to allow users to run Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium as guest [...]

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    [...] You might remember Phoenix Technologies was the company that reportedly put pressure on Microsoft by filing a complaint with regulators sometime after early November 2007, arguing that Microsoft should open the less-expensive versions of Vista to virtualization ( which it did). [...]

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