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Re:VMware May Be Microsoft’s Top Rival After Google by brisance on Monday August 31, 2009 @04:04AM (#795599)
Microsoft's top rival is itself. Why buy Windows 7 when you can continue to run XP and have Windows 7 in a virtualized environment?
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Re:VMware May Be Microsoft’s Top Rival After Google by xtho on Monday August 31, 2009 @05:26AM (#795641)
Erm, how do you get win7 to run in a virtualized environment without "buying it"?

I think the "more natural" course of things would be to run the existing win xp installation in a virtualized environment on a non-ms os.

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Re:VMware May Be Microsoft’s Top Rival After Google by nailer on Monday August 31, 2009 @04:25AM (#795605)
'Why buy Windows 7 when you can continue to run XP'

is probably it. There's no great rush of happy XP users wanting to 7 in a VM.

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