Vista Home license forbids virtualization
 

If you want to run Microsoft’s new Vista operating system on a Mac using Parallels Desktop for Mac, you’re going to have to buy the Enterprise or Ultimate editions. Parallels’ Ben Rudolph recently posted about the issue on the official Parallels Virtualization Blog.

http://parallelsvirtualization.blogs...-mean-for.html

how clever of microsoft...making people buy the more expensive versions of vista to try to compensate a little bit of the money they lost when pc people switched to macs. if you have to run windows, you have no choice but to buy it...though there is still xp......well played gates

Money Microsoft lost.....haha..now that is funny. Wish I was the richest man in the world. :)

I don't think the new OS is all that expensive, especially considering the development costs.

true...i'm just looking for conspiracies :eek: especially from microsoft

Many, many people run Windows in a VM session. Most of them are not Mac users.

I remember seeing an article in Maximum PC where some dude had every version of Windows (v1, v2, v3, WFWG, 95, 98, ME, NT, 2K, XP) running simultaneously on one computer in separate VM sessions which leads to the question - why?

I'm not seeing the practical side of running Vista on a Mac OS Intel box other than for the novelty unless there is a need to run some type of proprietary Windows software, i.e. a specialized work or business program, but what's the point when PC's are reasonably cheap?

I'm sure people run windows on a Mac for practical reasons of their own. Novelty not included,

If you can't figure that out i don't know what to tell ya. It's been covered over and over again.

I run winxp on my Mac with Parallels only because I have one program for which there is no Mac equivalent, streets and trips.
This is stupid on Microsoft’s part, someone will have a crack up
before long.

CNet calls Vista a Service Pack. After seeing an in-store demo of a Mac Pro with XP last month, my next home puter will be a Mac.

Running XP right now on a 24 inch iMac. Amazing. It's suppose to be faster with bootcamp but i don't have that.