FUD: Apple User Style
Some called John Pospisil has written an article on his blog jumping on the Vista bashing bandwagon. His article entitled "Microsoft slugs Mac users with Vista Tax" on the tech.blorge.com blogging site is just a load of uninformed crap. From the article:
Mac users wanting to run Vista on their Macintosh will have to buy an expensive version of Vista if they want to legally install it on their systems.
The end-user license agreement for the cheaper versions of Vista (Home Basic and Home Premium) explicitly forbids the use of those versions on virtual machines (ie Macs pretending to be PCs)
This is misleading, the EULA on the cheaper versions of Vista forbids the installation of these versions as Virtual Machines running under virtualisation software such as Parrallels, VMWare or even Microsofts Virtual PC. This relates to ALL platforms that these virtualisation programs support, not just Macs. It does not stop you from installing Vista on your Apple under Boot Camp.
This article is just pure FUD. I am suprised that a "tech" site would even publish something that is so incorrect and misleading. The ensuing arguements on slashdot and even on the article itself are just so funny. People who obviously know nothing about what they are discussing stating opinions as fact. Oh I love the Interweb.
posted by simv at
Thursday, February 08, 2007
1 Comments:
The limitations on running in virtual machines are annoying and counter-productive for testing of software on all versions.
That said, expecting a rational discussion of Microsoft from Mac fanboys is pointless. These are people who will jump up and down if you say anything slightly negative about Apple, no matter how much evidence you may have, and are deeply and totally convinced that every feature comes from Apple and is cloned by their most hated evil monopoly. That they are sufficiently clueless to misunderstand the distinction between virtualisation and a bootloader is unsurprising.
8 February 2007 4:30 PM
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