I back off nothing, I just don’t want a plateform battle, that’s not the point of the post Microsoft is holding customer hostage, they change standards to block other companies from competing (so does apple by the way), I can go on it you like. If you enjoy the way Microsoft does business than the count is at 1. My personal impression of Vista is that it’s a warmed over product that has almost nothing new other than eye candy and more user restriction on where it can an can not be run.

As for VM, Microsoft HAS blocked this use of VM’s and documented it on page 11 item 4 of the Vista use terms PDF on the Microsoft website. That is the focus of the post, not who has the best OS.

Here is the link for confirmation, look up the Vista terms.
http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...s/default.aspx