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Title: Unfair Microsoft
Post by: cjbriare on July 19, 2007, 02:42:21 AM
Did anybody notice that its kind of unfair that microsoft lets you download virtual pc for windows for free, but the  mac version is really expensive?

Thank heavens for QEMU! :?
Title: Unfair Microsoft
Post by: da9000 on July 19, 2007, 02:18:32 PM
Typical MS tactic: drown out the competition (I assume VMware in this case?) by giving it out for free because they can take the hit. Worked for IE, Word/Office, etc, etc
Title: Unfair Microsoft
Post by: nextchef on July 19, 2007, 02:27:23 PM
Quote from: "da9000"Typical MS tactic: drown out the competition (I assume VMware in this case?) by giving it out for free because they can take the hit. Worked for IE, Word/Office, etc, etc

VMware has a lot of patents related to the virtualization area that apparently makes it difficult for others to match up to their performance on some systems.  The fact that the newer chips from intel and amd contain hardware hypervisor support negates this somewhat, as we have seen with parallels.  MS Probably wont be as successful burying them, unless they decided to buy VMware, which is always possible with the tractor trailers of cash MS has.

Chef

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