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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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