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Fired for virtual Vista Home versions

Microsoft has changed its mind.

Unfortunately, Microsoft has reconsidered its licensing policy and banned the use of Vista Home Basic and Home Premium as a virtual system, despite prior promises. So those who wouldn’t mess up their hard drive with a Vista but still legally use the new system will have the Business or Ultimate version.

Fired for virtual Vista Home versions
Japan Ultimate on a MAC

This can be especially bad news for Mac owners, as it was easy to conjure up Windows on Macintosh with Parallels software, albeit only virtually. Of course, you can still use any Windows system with the help of the Boot Camp utility developed by Apple, but then we will not swim the installation.

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