From: RobertB 

In article ,
 Robert Comer  wrote:

> >Why exactly did this happen? Because Vista (all but the most expensive
> >version) will not run in a VM?
>
> No, Vista, and probably XP with the latest updates, is REAL finicky
> about changing hardware and if the NIC address changes, Vista thinks
> it's a new NIC and adds up points to the reactivate algorithm. (truly
> objectionable in my opinion, a NIC changing should have anything to do
> with activation.)

So, it looks at the MAC address or the NIC identifier and reports back to
the mother ship?


>
> --
> Bob Comer
>
>
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:33:43 -0400, RobertB 
> wrote:
>
> >In article , "Frank Haber"

> >wrote:
> >
> >> I made a rare visit to the general meeting of my local user
group Tuesday
> >> night, celebrity-whoring to catch David Pogue, who was both
flogging his
> >> new
> >> book and talking about Vista.  He's a smart cookie, and very
entertaining
> >> (see
> >> his NY Times videos).  He's a tad juvenile at times, but hey,
I'm still a
> >> teen-ager in lots of ways.  He's not highly technical, but he's my
> >> interface
> >> guru.  I credit him with teaching this left-brainer about how
to use Mac
> >> OS X
> >> fluidly, the right way.
> >>
> >> Well, Pogue gave some great demos, and good tips, and wasn't *too*
> >> completely
> >> committed to Microsoft.  It does seem true that he who loves Vista best
> >> is,
> >> if
> >> not a Mac fanboy, at least a Mac admirer.  His presentation was fairly
> >> even-handed, and threw some good barbs, especially about the  feature
> >> split
> >> among the too-many versions:
> >>
> >> "Home users never need to send a FAX?" 
"Business users never need to edit
> >> a
> >> video?"
> >>
> >> A brief interlude proved he really is a kind of polymath (he's an
> >> ex-Broadway
> >> conductor).  He ran through four or five of his best songs at the piano
> >> (!),
> >> and they were GOOD.  Not Tom Lehrer, but very good.  He threw
in a couple
> >> of
> >> magic tricks, too.
> >>
> >> He demoed on a low-end MacBook 12 btw, mostly under Boot
Camp.  Aero ran
> >> fine
> >> on this "3.0" machine (2GB).  Things flew. 
Everyone was impressed,
> >> including
> >> me. Although we all noticed that he spent most of the time
with Aero off,
> >> and
> >> User Account Control off, too.
> >>
> >> I then spoiled the party, piping up and complaining loudly that
> >> Microsoft's
> >> copy protection DEEPLY OFFENDED ME, and made me feel as though I were
> >> being
> >> treated like a street vendor in Kuala Lumpur.  Pogue was no
toady; he gave
> >> a
> >> good "Whatcha going to do?  MS is losing money" response.
> >>
> >> Then he rebooted and ran Parallels.  No wireless in the
lecture hall.  He
> >> disabled wireless networking in Parallels.  Boom.  Up came the thievery
> >> screen.  No more Vista for him that night.
> >
> >Why exactly did this happen? Because Vista (all but the most expensive
> >version) will not run in a VM?
> >
> >>
> >> Q.E.D.
> >>
> >>
> >> Great show!  Glad I went.  It's good to see a show that's a
show, with no
> >> apologies.

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