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to: Geo.
from: Robert Comer
date: 2007-02-25 17:58:10
subject: Re: Microsoft Say Don`t Buy Vista

From: "Robert Comer" 

> Microsoft's security, not yours. If it's run in a VM then you can get
> under the DRM system and defeat it.

That would be extremely hard given the way Vista's DRM works and the way VM
software in general works, and if that really were the case, they would not
allow any form of Vista in a VM....

--
Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message news:45e205e8{at}w3.nls.net...
> "mike"  wrote in message
> news:ca2vt25jdvahjqrmgqg87pg0rtor0mjr51{at}4ax.com...
>
>> Microsoft says it is discouraging sales for Mac machines for security
>> reasons.
>>
>> But others say there appears to be more to it than that.
>> ===
>>
>>
>> Interesting, when you take a non-technical look at things, just how
>> stupid Microsoft's policy appears to be.
>>
>> ~Please, due to security reasons, do use the most secure OS version of
>> Windows we have ever released.~
>
> Microsoft's security, not yours. If it's run in a VM then you can get
> under the DRM system and defeat it.
>
> Geo.

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