Along those lines, there’s been much written about the EULA for the home editions of Windows Vista. But what hasn’t been well reported is where we have made advances. The primary use cases here are with business customers and enthusiasts. In Windows Vista Enterprise edition we allow the user to have 4 installs of Windows in VMs and they can install and use Vista Business Edition in a VM. Virtualization is a new technology for consumers, and one that I believe isn’t mature enough yet from a security perspective for broad consumer adoption. But for the enthusiasts and early adopters we do provide Vista Ultimate to be used in a VM. As an example we have researched these issues with current virtualization hardware architectures. One area that is clear is that our security and data protection features can potentially be subverted by a malicious virtualization layer. We’re working with the hardware and software industry to improve the security of virtualization technologies and we will evolve our licensing policies as virtualization becomes more widely used on client systems.
I just hope that both corporate and the comsumer segment realize that Virtualization is a technology that can bring a lot of good to all of us. When VMware does or fare well, it must simply mean that a good healthy competition will give rise to a better conditions.
Conditions where clients/consumers don't have to worry about interoperability. Where they don't have to worry about slew tactics of the vendors. A lot of decision making will halt at a lot of shops. Clients are generally dissatisfied and they read and follow news regularly.
So try to co-exist and think in terms of tectonic alignment.
Anyways read Mike's response.
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