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Microsoft allows more Vista virtualization

Vmware Virtual VistaMicrosoft issued a press release today stating, among other things, that Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions can now be run in a virtual environment. This is good news for those of us who don't want to buy the more expensive editions of Vista just to run it virtualized on our Mac or Linux machines.

We checked the EULA for Vista Home Premium today, and it still says you can't virtualize it, but they will be updating that soon since this announcement wasn't supposed to go live until tomorrow.

Virtualization basically means you can run Vista in an intermediate piece of software so that it's contained and separate from your base OS. If you have a copy of Vista lying around and would like to virtualize it, try Parallels or VMware Fusion for Mac, or VirtualBox for Linux.

[via ZDNet]

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