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Skriven 2007-03-24 17:27:00 av ROBERT FOWLER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ALAN ZISMAN
Ärende: Re: Upgrade, no !
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-=> ALAN ZISMAN wrote to ROBERT FOWLER <=-

 AZ>> No restrictions of this sort in the XP EULA (Pro or Home)... that's
 AZ>> part of why the restrictions on Vista Home have been noteworthy.

 RF>   In all fairness though, that's pretty much a matter of timing.  There
 RF>   also seems to me to be some validity to their argument that the majority
 RF>   of users of VM would probably want/need the Business/Ultimate features,
 RF>   although there might be a few home users, like yourself.  CS clearly
 RF>   is one of their feared exceptions. :-)

 RF>   It's also quite noteworthy that while Jobs has labored to run
 RF>   Windows on his products, he hasn't even blinked at returning
 RF>   the favor. ;-)


 AZ> Certainly, virtualization has become a big deal in IT-- at least if
 AZ> you count the number of column inches it's getting in IT industry
 AZ> publications like eWeek and InfoWorld.

 AZ> Agreed that it isn't a core technology for home Windows users... but
 AZ> it IS becoming a must-have technology for many home Mac users-- I
 AZ> discussed yesterday the non-techie home user I helped who need access
 AZ> to Windows IE 6 for her work. Jean's pilot son would probably be
 AZ> another example of a Mac user whose work requires part-time access
 AZ> to a Windows system from home.

 AZ> These are the people who are grumbling...

 Understandably.

 AZ> re. your last note-- given that Apple is primarily in the hardware
 AZ> business while Microsoft is primarily in the software business, it
 AZ> makes perfect sense. Running Windows on a Mac provides a sale for
 AZ> Microsoft; running Mac OS X on a PC replaces a high-profit Mac hardware
 AZ> sale with a low-profit Apple OS sale... it's obviously not in
 AZ> Steve Jobs' business interest.

 AZ> That's the same reason why one of Jobs' first actions when he returned
 AZ> as Apple CEO in 97/98 was to cancel the Mac-clone license agreements...
 AZ> Rather than growing the overall market for Mac-OS systems, the clones
 AZ> were actually low-cost alternatives that were eating into Apple's
 AZ> hardware sales.

 Well, with the current lack of third party software for OS-X, and
 the inability to run Windows software without major support for
 Windows, OS-X isn't quite ready to rival Windows as an alternative
 platform for PCs.  Being hardware driven does make some sense.

 Regards,

 Robert Fowler

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