XP and Vista question

[Jim Ault]

Microsoft owns, sells and ships VirtualPC that includes a copy of XP.  How
can they say you are not allowed to run it with Vista ( as a licensee,
owner, renter, whatever..) ?

Is their exclusion principle that you can only run it with their
virtualization software?  Or only the high-end Vista products?

Jim Ault
Las Vegas

On 3/3/07 1:58 AM, "Dave Cragg" <dave.cragg at lacscentre.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> One for the lawyers...
> 
> I read a lot about this restriction of using some editions of Vista
> with virtual systems, but is it absolutely clear this use is
> restricted? The following is the sentence from the EULA that I have
> seen quoted in many places:
> 
> 
> ³USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software
> installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise
> emulated) hardware system.²
> 
> I've never seen this placed in the wider context of the entire
> license, but I wonder what the phrase "licensed device" refers to. Is
> the device in this case the disk that contains Vista? If so, then it
> seems clear you can't use it on a virtual system (legal challenges
> notwithstanding). But the wording sounds to me more like an OEM
> license, where "licensed device" is the computer you bought which
> already had Vista installed. In that case, I don't think it's so
> different from existing OEM licensing of Windows.
> 
> Can anyone clear this up?