[SATLUG] Pokes at Microsoft (off Topic)

[Brad Knowles]

At 4:24 PM -0600 3/2/07, country wrote:

>  In addition, today on CNN online, Technical, it has been released the Vista
>  will not allow virtual systems, in which you are basically running 2 OS's.

Actually, that's the lower-cost versions, like Home, etc....  The 
higher-cost Enterprise-oriented versions definitely support being run 
in a virtual environment, because that's precisely Microsoft's own 
sales model for making their systems more scalable -- run a bunch of 
virtual PCs on a mainframe-style machine which costs a boatload of 
money to buy (or lease) and a boatload of money to maintain, but 
which is still more scalable than having a million PCs lying around.

I hate Microsoft about as much as anyone else, but I don't like to 
see people making technically incorrect statements in their arguments 
against them -- Microsoft has already done way more than enough to 
justify their complete elimination from this world with extreme 
prejudice, we don't need to fabricate anything more.

>  Mac and Apple are the major targets of this.

True enough.

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