Microsoft was expected to announce that it was increasing virtualization rights for Windows Vista but has now decided that it won’t. Blogger Bink.nu reports:
“The software maker had briefed reporters and analysts on plans to allow the Home versions of Vista to run in virtual machines, addressing criticisms from virtualization enthusiasts and Mac users who had chafed at having to buy one of the two priciest versions of Windows in order to run Vista in a virtual machine.”
Only Vista Business and Vista Ultimate can run as guest operating systems. Microsoft cites security risks of virtualization as the reason why it didn’t want to make that option available to the less-sophisticated users it expects will buy Vista versions other than Business or Ultimate.
