Virtual PC 2007 Beta: Free and Available Now

Virtual PC 2007 betas for Vista

Microsoft News Tracker — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:12:58 GMT

Nick White at Microsoft’s Windows Vista Team Blog has the Virtual PC 2007 news: Virtual PC 2007 Beta is now available as a free download from connect.microsoft.com. Virtual PC 2007 is optimized to work well for Windows Vista as both ...

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someone — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:07:19 GMT

For the past several days, I'm getting a Passport Network Unavailable error on Connect.

re: Virtual PC 2007 Beta: Free and Available Now

newscientist2000 — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:36:27 GMT

Ive read that vista licencing will have different limits on virtualisation use depending on what version you buy. Probably a good idea to test this out now before you have to pay big bucks for it!

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mhornyak — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:08:58 GMT

Remember, you can't license Vista Home for virtual machine use.

As much as I'd rather use Vista than Linux, it seems like Microsoft isn't really serious about getting people to use it. Instead they're slapping us around with onerous licenses.

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n4cer — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:15:42 GMT

Both versions of Vista Home can be used in a VM. What you cannot do is use the same copy you have installed on your PC in a VM. You need an extra license for the VM install. Vista Ultimate does allow you to use the same copy you have installed on your PC in a VM.

The relevant sections of the license are:

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Vista Home Basic and Home Premium

4. USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system

Vista Ultimate

6. USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system on the licensed device. If you do so, you may not play or access content or use applications protected by any Microsoft digital, information or enterprise rights management technology or other Microsoft rights management services or use BitLocker. We advise against playing or accessing content or using applications protected by other digital, information or enterprise rights management technology or other rights management services or using full volume disk drive encryption.

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"Licensed device" means the physical PC on which you've installed the OS. If you have already installed the OS on a PC, only Ultimate allows you to use that same licensed copy with a VM. For Home Basic and Home Premium, you can either install on a VM only, or you can install on a PC and get an additional license for the VM.

Virtual PC 2007β公開(x64 host OS対応、Windows Vista はhost、 guestとも対応)

米田 Blog ( SQL Server MEMO ) — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:24:42 GMT

Virtual PC 2007β公開(x64 host OS対応、Windows Vista はhost、 guestとも対応)

Futures made of Virtual PC...

Mr Vista - Clear, Confident & Connected — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:17:24 GMT

Apologies for the shameless plug of a Jamiroquai hit of yesteryear, but I thought it was an ideal way

Vine Linux 4.0 Beta 3 on Virtual PC 2007 Beta

M'eaSystem.Text — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:56:20 GMT

Virtual PC 2007のベータ版が公開されましたので早速入手してインストールしてみました。

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newscientist2000 — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:05:36 GMT

Finally I may be able to play Cannon Fodder on my PC again! Hoorah!

Disponibile la Beta di Virtual PC 2007

Blog Team TechNet Italia — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:43:14 GMT

E' finalmente disponibile da qualche giorno la beta pubblica di Virtual PC 2007. Internamente era disponibile