Just grabbed this off of mac rumours:
"As first noted in a HardMac forum post, it appears Microsoft is specifying in its license agreements that the ability to operate in a virtualized environment is prohibited in Home Basic and Home Premium editions, leaving users to have to purchase either the Business or the Ultimate versions of the software to legally run in a virtualized environment.
Mac users have found virtualization solutions such as Parallels Desktop a good way to switch between Mac OS X and Windows. This latest news from Microsoft may inhibit some use of the software as Business and Ultimate editions range from $300-400 verses Home Basic's $200 price point "
Wow, what sort of nonsense is this? MS loses nothing (besides POSSIBLY customers after they get a side by side comparison between the 2 operating systems) by having this run on mac hardware. In fact, they may sell more obscenely expensive retail cost versions of windows as many developers are more than happy at being able to run both to test.
I wonder if they can actually restrict this, or if it is just an EULA agreement everyone will ignore.
The real question is whether this is just really badly written license agreement text (ie: can't use it on a machine as a main install as well as under virtualization or just under virtualization).
Actual EULA copy:
4. USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system.
"As first noted in a HardMac forum post, it appears Microsoft is specifying in its license agreements that the ability to operate in a virtualized environment is prohibited in Home Basic and Home Premium editions, leaving users to have to purchase either the Business or the Ultimate versions of the software to legally run in a virtualized environment.
Mac users have found virtualization solutions such as Parallels Desktop a good way to switch between Mac OS X and Windows. This latest news from Microsoft may inhibit some use of the software as Business and Ultimate editions range from $300-400 verses Home Basic's $200 price point "
Wow, what sort of nonsense is this? MS loses nothing (besides POSSIBLY customers after they get a side by side comparison between the 2 operating systems) by having this run on mac hardware. In fact, they may sell more obscenely expensive retail cost versions of windows as many developers are more than happy at being able to run both to test.
I wonder if they can actually restrict this, or if it is just an EULA agreement everyone will ignore.
The real question is whether this is just really badly written license agreement text (ie: can't use it on a machine as a main install as well as under virtualization or just under virtualization).
Actual EULA copy:
4. USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system.
