Ballmer's self-fulfilling prophecy
Link: Ballmer: Life after Vista | Tech News on ZDNet.
Virtualization is not going to be adopted first in the end-user market.
Yeah, especially since Vista Home EULAs prevent installing it in a virtual machine.
Posted by VMTN on December 6, 2006 in virtualization futures
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I could ALMOST hear the comedic drum roll at the end of that!
Posted by: David Marshall | December 06, 2006 at 06:05 PM
Well, if it's only the EULA that prevents me from running it on a VM, then I can live with that. I dont even read the thing!
Posted by: Paulo Jacob | December 07, 2006 at 04:11 AM
Famous quotes Ballmer:
-Virtualization is not being adopted.
- Officeware will remain on the OS
- OS will need a solid hardware
- Chairs are multi-purpose units
Posted by: Tarry Singh | December 10, 2006 at 03:22 AM
Read it - you can run Vista Home in a VM until the cows come home (provided VMWare ever gets their software running properly under Vista) - you just aren't entitled to support. Which is fair enough, since if you really need to run virtual machines, you'd probably be willing to pay for the OS and the hardware it needs.
Posted by: Aaron Hawryluk | December 13, 2006 at 01:58 PM
I've read the article and the statements from MS. You "aren't entitled to support" because you are violating the EULA. By your standard, I can go install Vista on computer after computer until the cows come home -- I'm just not entitled to support.
I think onerous EULAs are bad and unenforceable, but I'm not comfortable with telling people to violate them.
Posted by: jtroyer | December 13, 2006 at 02:25 PM