Microsoft Vista Rip off Mac users
Published October 24th, 2006
“Microsoft Corp. plans to charge and arm and a leg to allow users of Apple Computer’s Intel Macs to run its next-generation Windows Vista operating system under virtualization.
In its licensing terms for Vista published this month, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant said users of Vista Home Premium and Vista Home Basic “may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system.”
Instead, Microsoft will require that users purchase a Vista Business or Vista Ultimate license, which will retail for $299 and $399, respectively, in order to emulate the Windows environment.”
Boot camp from Apple allows a Mac to boot into windows from start up, but Parallels’ Desktop enables intel Mac users to run any version of windows or Linux within OS X.
http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/
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