From: RobertB 

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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