11th
April
2007
Mac Users Complaining About Virtualization
posted in Technology, Mac, Business |Several posts from Mac people have complained about the Vista virtualization license rules that basically say you can’t do it unless you have the Ultimate or Business SKUs. Now, I think this is a lame business strategy on Microsoft’s part, but is it unfair as has been alleged?
If its really unfair, how about Apple lets us run MacOS virtualized inside Windows. I challenge Apple to say that they are fine with this. I’d even be fine if they only went half-way and only allowed it if there underlying hardware was a Mac (but I’m still going to call that a 50% cop-out compared to the “Apples to Apples” scenario of buying a retail copy of MacOS and installing it on a VM on a arbitrary PC.