Vista Home license now allows virtualization

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 07:13:30PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | <quote>
> | If you are licensed to use Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate, or
> | Service Pack 1 of any of these Windows Vista editions (the "software"), you have the following license
> | right. If there is a conflict with any past or future license terms for the software, this supplemental
> | license term applies.
> | 
> | Use with Virtualization Technologies. Instead of using the software directly on the licensed device,
> | you may install and use the software within only one virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system on
> | the licensed device. When used in a virtualized environment, content protected by digital rights
> | management technology, BitLocker or any full volume disk drive encryption technology may not be as
> | secure as protected content not in a virtualized environment. You should comply with all domestic and
> | international laws that apply to such protected content.
> | </quote>
> 
> Nice.  I don't know how to tell which of their rubric's apply: go
> consult the EULA you got, or here's a bonus right.

How about the part "If there is a conflict with any past or future
license terms for the software, this supplemental license term
applies."?  So they can't revoke this later?  Is Vista selling that
badly? :)

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