From: Robert Comer 

>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.)

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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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