Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Vista virtualization

Microsoft's Windows Vista team is eating crow after <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2148526,00.asp?kc=EWKNLNAV062007FEA1">flip-flopping on its on-again, off-again decision</A> to allow cheaper versions of Vista to be used in virtualized machines.

The company was all set to announce June 20 that the lower-cost Vista Home Basic ($199) and Vista Home Premium ($249) versions could be used in virtual machines, and that it had lifted its prohibition on the use of information rights management, digital rights management and its BitLocker data encryption service in a virtual machine.

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