Surprises in the Windows 7 EULA
Over the weekend, I had a chance to spend some quality time with the leaked Windows 7 build that’s zipping around the Internet.
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30.12.2008 Do you understand MS EULA?
Windows Server Virtualization, some early learnings
Microsoft's James O'Neill blog: It has been a frustrating few days. I've got a new (internal) interim build of Windows Server Virtualization to test.
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8.9.2007 Longhorn:: Hypervisor - Windows Server Virtualization Demo
I just posted the TechReady keynote demo, which I talked about earlier, on soapbox.
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9.3.2007 Critical Features Cut from Windows Server Virtualization
Facing what he called "universal truths about product development," Microsoft general manager for virtualization strategy Mike Neil concluded a multi-page blog post this afternoon touting the progress made with Windows Server Virtualization, code-named "Viridian," by announcing the removal of three of the service's most highly anticipated features: live migration of running virtual machines between servers; "hot-adds" of virtual components such as storage, processors, and memory; and support for more than 16 logical processing cores.
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13.5.2007 Free Hard Drive Virtualization for Windows - SteadyState 2.5
Whether you manage computers in a school computer lab or an Internet cafe, a library, or even in your home, Windows SteadyState helps make it easy for you to keep your computers running the way you want them to, no matter who uses them.
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13.6.2008 Windows 7 Network Optimization, Virtualization, Devices Profile
With Windows 7, Microsoft is not only working to steer away from the mistakes made with Windows Vista, but also to move on territories where the successor of Windows XP has failed to gain a consistent level of traction.
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9.11.2008 Virtualization not 'mature' for consumers
Consumers cannot run home versions of Windows Vista as virtual machines because virtualization is not mature enough for broad adoption, says Microsoft.
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27.11.2006 The Microsoft virtualization chance
The Microsoft investment in virtualization industry started in unsuspected times, with the acquisition of the only VMware competitor in 2003: Connectix.
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2.4.2007 Microsoft Gets Hyper About Virtualization
Microsoft claims that today's Hyper-V beta is an early Christmas present to customers and partners. The view on VMware: The Grinch who stole Christmas.
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16.12.2007 Longhorn Datacenter will have no extra virtualization costs
Today virtualization is expensive for licensing. Microsoft asks people to license every OS installed on virtual machines, even if powered off. But something is changing.
Since the release of Windows Server 2003 R2 Microsoft started approaching a per-use licensing model instead of a per-installation model.
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13.1.2006 Microsoft Puts Limits on Vista Virtualization
Virtual Windows Vista users will have to pay for the high-end OS. With the release of Windows Vista on Tuesday, the final end-user licensing agreement (EULA) is reaching the eyes of the masses – for those who actually care to read through it instead of blindly clicking “next.”
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2.2.2007 Microsoft Delays Virtualization Tools Rollouts
In a blog posting this morning, Microsoft general manager for virtualization strategy Mike Neil revealed his company will be pushing back some milestone dates for some of its key virtualization products.
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12.4.2007 Microsoft flip-flops on Vista virtualization
Microsoft planned this week to announce that it was broadening the virtualization rights for Windows Vista, but decided at the last minute to reverse course and stick with existing limits.
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20.6.2007 Microsoft: virtualization not mature enough for home Vista users
In general, nobody reads end-user license agreements (EULAs). They are long, boring, and full of legalese that few people care to take the time to understand. Occasionally, however, unusual wordings in EULAs are used to question a company's policies and intentions, especially when that company is Microsoft.
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25.11.2006 Microsoft Manager Says It Considered Banning Vista Virtualization
In a story for the Associated Press carried on many online news services this afternoon, one of the directors of Microsoft's Windows Client Product Planning team appears to make a curious and perhaps astounding statement.
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26.2.2007 Microsoft to Deliver a Platform Agnostic Standard for Virtualization
Microsoft is cooperating with rivals from Vmware, XenSource and IBM, but also with partners on the server market such as Dell and HP in order to deliver a single standard for portable virtual machines.
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10.9.2007 Microsoft buys virtualization vendor help with Vista migrations
Microsoft announced on March 12 it had purchased another virtualization vendor — one whose technology Microsoft is counting on to help ease Windows Vista migrations.
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12.3.2008 Microsoft pushes back delivery dates for virtualization wares
Microsoft is delaying the public beta of its Windows Server virtualization hypervisor and first Virtual Server 2005 R2 service pack, company officials acknowledged on April 12.
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13.4.2007 Virtualization Saves Microsoft Customers Nearly a Half-Million Dollars Per Year
Microsoft Corp. today announced that some business customers around the world have saved on average $470,000 (U.S.) per year through IT projects using Microsoft virtualization software.
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10.2.2009 Micrososoft drops major features in Windows Server Virtualization - Viridian, beta starts with Longhorn Server RTM
Microsoft does it again, promise great cool features and even demo them. They let us wait for months/years and then just drops the cool stuff for a "future release" Just like the Windows Server team did with R2 at the time.
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11.5.2007 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 – 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008More clues: Why Microsoft backtracked on its Vista virtualization plans
Last week, Microsoft nixed at
the last minute planned
changes to its Windows Vista
end-user license agreement
(EULA) that would have
broadened virtualization
rights. Since then,
speculation has been mounting
as to why Microsoft did this.
Fear of Mac OS X and
Linux on the desktop? A desire
to thwart Parallels and
VMWare? DRM concerns?
Queries to Microsoft
regarding why company
officials nixed the planned
easing of Vistas virtualiztion
license were met with śWe have
nothing further to say.ť
Period.
I realized
over the weekend that none of
us press/bloggers who was
briefed by Microsoft on the
planned changes had run the
text of the EULA wording
Microsoft officials provided
to us. Maybe one of you out
there will see some clues the
rest of us missed as to why
Microsoft decided to continue
to ban users from running
legally Vista Home Basic or
Vista Home Premium in
virtualized environments...
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25.06.2007Mac OS X Virtualization! Is It Trick or Treat?
When we talk about virtualization on the Apple Mac platform, we are usually talking about virtualizing Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems as
guest operating systems on either VMware Fusion or Parallels' Desktop for Mac products. But in this case, we are actually talking about virtualizing
the Mac OS itself.
Is this a Halloween trick? Or treat? I suppose it depends on the way you look at it. The good news, however,
is that there is definitely change in the air.
If you remember the long, drawn out discussions in the past, the idea of
virtualizing Mac OS X was clear. Apple stated that the license only allowed you to install and use one copy of the Mac OS X Server software on a
single Apple-labeled computer at a time. So it was a one license, one machine EULA. Which pretty much ruled it out as a guest operating system even
though both VMware and Parallels said it was "possible" to virtualize the OS.
Now, it looks as though a subtle change has been
made to Apple's End User License Agreement (EULA) in the new Leopard Server operating system. It reads...
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01.11.2007Windows 7 EULA: watch this space
You have to hand it to those lawyers, always trying so hard to protect their mumbo jumbos. The placeholder page for the
Windows 7 End User License Agreement is now live (and has been for
at least 2 weeks).
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06.08.2008Blogger gets $200 check from HP for declining Vista's EULA
Blogger
uncle_benji went over to Best Buy and purchased an HP dv6815nr for $599.99
plus tax. When he saw the Windows Vista EULA and the HP EULA, he decided he wanted to move to Linux. He wasn't happy that there wasn't an option to
decline the EULA, but didn't take his revenge on Microsoft by just grabbing one of the many Linux distro install discs. Nope, first things first:
this user decided to call HP and demand a refund for Microsoft's latest operating system. After all, Microsoft's EULA does say to contact the
manufacturer if the user does not agree with it. This user simply took it a step further and made sure that he was not paying for something he wasn't
going to use.
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22.07.2008Microsoft bails on virtualization licensing changes for Vista
Microsoft almost tweaked its
licensing terms for Windows
Vista yet again this time in
order to ease virtualization
restrictions that irked a
number of customers and
partners. But in the eleventh
hour, company officials
decided against the move,
resulting in Microsoft
cancelling its planned
announcement.
Microsoft officials were
preparing to announce
officially on June 20 that
Microsoft had a change of
heart and would allow users to
run all versions of Windows
Vista in a virtualized
environment. Microsoft
prebriefed a number of news
and blogging outlets,
including me, about the
planned change under
non-disclosure.
Currently, Microsofts
end-user license agreement
(EULA) specifies that users
can run only the Business and
Ultimate versions of Vista in
virtual machines from
Microsoft and other vendors...
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20.06.2007Surprises in the Windows 7 license agreement
Over the weekend, many Windows 7 lovers have been busy looking into the wild and Ed Bott, ZDNet blogger, was not an exception. Bott has found some
interesting information in the Windows 7 license agreement(EULA). Bott reports that the EULA ends with an revision ID -
EULAID:Win7_B.1_PRO_NRL_en-US which confirms that this leaked build is indeed beta 1. But no one from Microsoft is ready to confirm whether this build
is indeed the beta 1 which is going to be released at CES.
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30.12.2008Benchmarks: ESX vs Hyper-V vs XenServer
It doesnt matter how hard you look, its almost impossible that you are going to find a performance comparison that involves Citrix XenServer,
Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX.
The VMware End User License Agreement (EULA)
specifically says that the company wont recognize any
3rd party performance testing before it has the chance to review and approve the adopted methodology...
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15.03.2009Vista virtualization rules relaxed to quash antitrust probes
Microsoft dropped its prohibition on running the most popular versions of Windows Vista in virtual machines because of a complaint filed with
antitrust regulators, court documents show.
According to a status report filed with U.S. District Court Judge Colleen
Kollar-Kotelly , Microsoft changed the EULA (end-user licensing agreements) of Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium under pressure from Phoenix
Technologies. Phoenix, best known for the BIOS, or firmware, that it sells to PC makers, had filed a complaint with regulators sometime after early
November 2007, arguing that Microsoft should open the less-expensive versions of Vista to virtualization.
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11.03.2008Windows Server 2008 Virtualization Product Overview
Get an early look at Windows Server 2008 virtualization by downloading this product overview. This document provides an overview of Windows Server
Virtualization and explores Microsoft's Virtualization Strategy, how it addresses key business needs including server consolidation, business
continuity, testing and development, moving toward a dynamic data center and branch office.
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27.09.2007The Growing Case for Virtualization
Q&A: Mike Neil, Microsofts virtualization strategist, talks about security, cloud computing and other virtualization topics from the floor of the
VMworld conference in Las Vegas...
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16.09.2008Windows Server virtualization at TechEd 2007
For those of you amongst the
14,000 attending TechEd 2007
next week in Orlando, expect
to see and learn alot about
virtualization.
It
all starts with Bob Muglia's
keynote on Monday where Jeff
Woolsey will reprise his role
of virtualization demo dude.
Jeff will demo Windows Server
2008 server core installation
running an IDS build of
Windows Server virtualization,
managed by both MOM and System
Center Virtual Machine
Manager.
I'd expect
to see VM creation, interop
and network load balancing
with limited disruption of
service. I'm hoping to see
V-to-V conversion, from ESX
Server to Windows Server
virtualization. I'll be
watching on Monday, and I
expect the webcast to be
available from
http://www.microsoft.com/press
pass/events/teched/default.msp
x>here...
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01.06.2007Microsoft Clarifies Virtualization Licensing
Microsoft Corp. has released a
white paper clarifying how
licensing for its current
version of Windows Server
works when paired with
virtualization software.
However, customers may face a
whole new set of licensing
rules once the next version,
Windows Server 2008, is
released later this year.
In a white paper called
"Licensing Microsoft Windows
Server 2003 R2 to Run with
Virtualization Technologies,"
Microsoft outlines clearly how
to license the current version
of Windows Server-- Windows
Server 2003 R2-- for specific
third-party virtualization
technology, including VMware
ESX, VMware Vmotion and SWsoft
Virtuozzo. It also explains
licensing for Microsoft's own
System Center Virtual Machine
Manager.
The document
http://www.microsoft.com/windo
wsserver2003/howtobuy/licensin
g/calculator.mspx>can be found
on a Web page that also
includes previously released
virtualization calculators
that help customers determine
the cost of Windows Server
licensing in various
virtualization scenarios...
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13.06.2007Sun enters a suddenly crowded virtualization market
Virtualization was the huge topic during Oracle OpenWorld 2007, and Sun Microsystems kept it going on Wednesday, using Oracle's own show to announce
its own virtualization tool to compete with it...
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15.11.2007Microsoft Delays Virtualization Tools Rollouts
In a blog posting this
morning, Microsoft general
manager for virtualization
strategy Mike Neil revealed
his company will be pushing
back some milestone dates for
the next service pack of
Virtual Server 2005 R2, as
well as for the new
virtualization tool for
Windows Server
"Longhorn" - depending
on how you read the milestones
to start with...
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12.04.200710 things you should know about virtualization
Microsoft has promised that the Hyper-V virtualization component (formerly called Viridian) will follow within 180 days of the release of Windows
Server 2008 . Of course, Microsoft already has Virtual Server and Virtual PC, as well as stiff competition on the virtualization front from VMWare and
Citrix/XenSource.
With all these options, taking the plunge into virtualization can be a big and confusing step. Here are a few
things you should know about virtualization and virtualization software before you start to plan a deployment.
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11.03.2008Second release candidate for Hyper-V virtualization tool now available
Microsoft's ambitious, if somewhat reduced, goals of making hardware-supported virtualization a common feature of Windows Server, are one small step
closer to fruition this afternoon...
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21.05.2008Windows 7 and XP virtualization: What you need to know
Microsoft's new Virtual XP Mode requires hardware virtualization, but with all the news surrounding this feature, users are wondering "Am I able
to run Virtual XP Mode?" Even though people may recommend you run Securable to check and see, the problem is, Securable may not display results
accurately, even if your BIOS says that hardware virtualization is turned on as evidenced by this forum thread. Thankfully, Microsoft is aware of
this, and has created this page to help you out. The pages gives you ways to identify if your processor supports hardware virtualization, and gives
instructions on how to check the BIOS settings of Dell, HP, and Thinkpad systems to see if it's turned on.
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06.05.2009Final Hyper-V virtualization kit now available
Microsoft promised six months from the Windows Server 2008 release date last January, and as it turned out, that's just about right. The
hardware-supported OS virtualization system is now ready for full deployment in production systems...
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27.06.2008Windows Virtualization Opened
to Linux
Microsoft late Monday
announced a partnership with
open source virtualization
company XenSource in order to
offer interoperability between
Xen-enabled Linux
installations and the upcoming
"hypervisor"
technology coming to Windows
Server Longhorn...
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19.07.2006Virtualization homes in on desktops
When Parallels Desktop was released in June 2006, it opened the door for hundreds of thousands of Apple users to run Windows at the same time as they
ran the Mac operating system.
It also introduced the masses to the notion of desktop virtualization.
Virtualization, until recently, has focused largely on the server, where the idea of enabling one server to act as many has clear cost
benefits.
While Windows-on-a-Mac is still the most widely known use for the technology, there are reasons why desktop
virtualization may soon expand into new areas.
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