Text 55618, 63 rader
Skriven 2009-07-03 11:53:29 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 55614 av Jean Parrot (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Any $$$
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Jean Parrot -> Alan Zisman wrote:
 JP> Alan wrote:

 AZ>> It's a question of contracts, not law- hence the 'legality' is
 JP> whatever
 AZ>> the contract between Microsoft and the various OEMs says it is. There
 AZ>> is, however, a tradition in law (I'm not a lawyer, but I think I'm
 AZ>> accurate here) that suggests that if a contract provision is not
 AZ>> enforced, it becomes unenforceable.

 JP>     I am wondering as I never saw any offer like this, I do not know how
 JP> one could take advantage of them.

People who were looking for 'legal' copies of various Windows version found
them... you had other sources for legitimate copies of Windows, so you never
had the need.

In some ways, it reminds me of the restaurants whose licenses don't let them
serve customers just a glass of wine or beer- but can serve drinks if the
customer orders an appetizer.


 AZ>>>> Some software- particularly custom-developed programs made by
 AZ>>>> businesses- is not compatible with Vista or Win 7.... hence the
 AZ>>>> desire to be able to run XP in a virtual session.

 JP>     I know nothing of this virtuous way to run a machine. I gather that
 JP> there are benefits in this, not my cuppa, so far ! Where would I gain,
 JP> if anything ? Remember, I am a low user.

 AZ>> Note that if the programs in question have to be run in virtualized
 AZ>> versions of XP, then it doesn't matter whether the 'host' operating
 AZ>> system is Win 7, Mac OS X, or Ubuntu (among others)-- the result is
 JP> the
 AZ>> same in all cases.

 JP>     I will take your word for it. I should study this further just to be
 JP> able to type some intelligent comments on it as I can not do now.

Since you haven't run into any software-related incompatibilities, you wouldn't
gain much if anything by running Windows in a virtual session.

The other big categories of software that gets broken by newer Windows are a)
some utilities including anti-virus programs... this is less of an issue
because the companies quickly create new version and are, in fact, happy for
the opportunity to force their users to pay for new versions and b) some older
games.

At my elementary school, I have a whole set of games and educational software
that ran fine when we were running Windows 98 that wouldn't run  when we moved
to Win2000 and XP.

Virtualization isn't a good option for this, as the video performance needed
for these programs is lacking.

But none of these affect you much- if at all- I suspect.
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