Microsoft owns, sells and ships VirtualPC that includes a copy of XP. How can they say you are not allowed to run it with Vista ( as a licensee, owner, renter, whatever..) ?
Is their exclusion principle that you can only run it with their virtualization software? Or only the high-end Vista products? Jim Ault Las Vegas On 3/3/07 1:58 AM, "Dave Cragg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > One for the lawyers... > > I read a lot about this restriction of using some editions of Vista > with virtual systems, but is it absolutely clear this use is > restricted? The following is the sentence from the EULA that I have > seen quoted in many places: > > > ³USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software > installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise > emulated) hardware system.² > > I've never seen this placed in the wider context of the entire > license, but I wonder what the phrase "licensed device" refers to. Is > the device in this case the disk that contains Vista? If so, then it > seems clear you can't use it on a virtual system (legal challenges > notwithstanding). But the wording sounds to me more like an OEM > license, where "licensed device" is the computer you bought which > already had Vista installed. In that case, I don't think it's so > different from existing OEM licensing of Windows. > > Can anyone clear this up? _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution