From: "Rich Gauszka" 

XP now?  Good grief - next I'll have to re-activate if I mount a usb drive

"Robert Comer"  wrote in
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> >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.)
>
> --
> 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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