[mdlug] Virtualization in WinVista

[Michael Rudas]

I'm sure that there are some of us who would like to legally host
WinVista under Linux.  It almost happened for Home users, but...

There's a good reason why Microsoft flip-flopped on virtualization in
WinVista Home: It turns out that the DRM features in WinVista are
easily blown away like smoke on a summer breeze when WinVista is
virtualized. See http://preview.tinyurl.com/yrjfvd (Computerworld
article). I don't see how MS can fix this, nor why they didn't realize
it BEFORE the egg blew up in their faces.

In acceding to the likes of Sony and Viacom, Microsoft thought they
could be the masters of Hollywood, but it's the customers that are
getting bent over...

-- Mikey