Vista Licenses Limit OS Transfers, Ban VM Use

TechWeb ^ | October 12, 2006 (1:53 PM EDT) | Gregg Keizer

[Golden Eagle]

I agree, a solid Unix like OS with lots of apps would gain market share.

Apple has that, but they're keeping it bottled up to their own hardware. Apparently they primarily see themselves remaining a hardware company, but they should at least consider giving out some bootable "live cd's" with limited functionality such as browser only as a teaser.

[MarkL]

With optional modules those products will also support restores to dissimilar hardware, so long as the disk drivers are available at the time of restore.

Sysprep will allow you to do that as well, as long as the basic HAL is the same. You can have different disk drivers, network adapters, and video boards, and ghost can work just fine, provided you set up sysprep properly, and the aforementioned HAL is the same.

I was actually able to set up a single ghost image for a client once who had Dell laptops and Compaq desktops, and everything worked perfectly!

Mark

[amigatec]

Another bites the dust..... Information for current Apptimum customers Microsoft’s acquisition of Apptimum, Inc. will not result in significant changes for current customers of Alohabob products. Customers will continue to receive the product support they were entitled to, and there have been no changes to the support policy. Customers should continue to contact support in the same ways they are accustomed to, by following the links provided on this website. Microsoft does not plan to continue selling the existing Apptimum products. These are no longer for sale from Apptimum. Microsoft’s goal in making this acquisition is to simplify the computer setup experience for millions of Windows customers around the world, and make the application transfer functionality broadly available. Microsoft will release products based on the Apptimum technology in the future, and the first one is planned to be a downloadable product for customers of Windows Vista. For more information about these future products as they become available, please follow the Microsoft web site at www.microsoft.com

[Golden Eagle]

I wasn't familiar with Aloha Bob but my application was more for servers. We've turned some massive application server upgrades to new hardware from a weeks long job to a single day.

[Golden Eagle]

I'm more bothered by this Japanese company that recently bought the Palm O/S and is now killing it off for Linux.

[MarkL]

I wasn't familiar with Aloha Bob but my application was more for servers. We've turned some massive application server upgrades to new hardware from a weeks long job to a single day.

Aloha Bob was strictly for workstations. It was amazing. It was able to migrate most windows applications to the new system, and would get all the profiles and personal settings and desktops. A really amazing piece of software. It looks like MS has a plan to bundle it with Vista (or make it available for sale only to Vista users).

Mark

[Babu]

I'm more bothered by this Japanese company that recently bought the Palm O/S and is now killing it off for Linux.

I hadn't heard about that, but I don't like the sound of it -- could you be kind enuf to elaborate more, and/or give a link to comprehensive story. Is Palm O/S becoming unavailable. Thanx for any info.

[amigatec]

I'm more bothered by this Japanese company that recently bought the Palm O/S and is now killing it off for Linux.

You do like double standards

You still haven't explained in the other post how N Korea can run all those Clusters with NO Electricity.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1717138/posts?page=251#251

[marajade]

How can that be true today. Evidence it.

[Golden Eagle]

The Palm OS has officially ceased to be, giving way to Access Linux Platform (Japan).

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/12102006/152/goodbye-palm-hello-access-linux-platform.html

[marajade]

well goody for you. And how long did it take you find all the necessary drivers, etc. And weren't you lucky that Linux even had them.

[Recovering Hermit]

If I upgrade my computer, and reinstall Vista, will that count against the transfer limit?

Isn't this already the case?

Windows XP reinstalls require product activation...this typically amounts to trying to activate on-line (which fails), then waiting in queue before talking to some rep to explain why you need to re-activate, and then typing in a new activation code.

[Golden Eagle]

You do like double standards

How is that a double standard, when only in your case is it a foreign company and product replacing an American one?

[amigatec]

Here we have it folks PROOF that reincarnation is real!!!

May I present to you Golden Eagle...NOBODY can get this ignorant in ONE lifetime.

[Golden Eagle]

You see no difference between a Japanese company and an American one? That truly would be ignorant.

[The_Victor]

Isn't this already the case?

Windows XP reinstalls require product activation...this typically amounts to trying to activate on-line (which fails), then waiting in queue before talking to some rep to explain why you need to re-activate, and then typing in a new activation code.

No, I can wipe my harddrive and reinstall Win XP ad infinitum. I have to reenter the authentication code, but there is no limit to how many times I can do that.

[N3WBI3]

And youll notice what I replied to was you aying 'I dont think google runs that many nodes"

[N3WBI3]

I think you would be fine with fedora, just dont run KDE and dont do the default install..

[N3WBI3]

They were all on the default fedora core five install and it has been years (literally) since I have had to install custom drivers on a linux desktop. I have had to install custom nic and video drives on an HP prolient server, I have also had to install video drivers and raid drivers on a Dell Poweredge server. both sites (dell and HP) contained the drivers which I downloaded, put on a floppy and installed..

The better question might be just how many linux workstations / servers / desktops have you set up in the past three years?

[jpsb]

OK thx, I will give it a try.